Re: [PATCH] ata: Kconfig: Update SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY default to med_power_with_dipm

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 5/2/24 18:26, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> 
> Historically this was set to "keep_firmware_settings" to prevent problems
> with power management on very old drives. However it's been observed that
> almost all modern Linux distributions either set the policy to
> "med_power_with_dipm" in the kernel configuration or update it to this via
> userspace policy changes. Update the policy default in the kernel to
> "med_power_with_dipm" to match that behavior as well.
> 
> Changing the default was previously not a good idea, because LPM disables
> detection of hot plug removals, however, since commit ae1f3db006b7 ("ata:
> ahci: do not enable LPM on external ports"), a port marked as external
> will always be initialized to "keep_firmware_settings", regardless of the
> SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY Kconfig value. Therefore, changing the default is
> now considered safe (external ports included).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> [cassel: rebased and reworded commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/ata/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/Kconfig b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
> index b595494ab9b4..e00536b49552 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/ata/Kconfig
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ config SATA_AHCI
>  config SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY
>  	int "Default SATA Link Power Management policy"
>  	range 0 4
> -	default 0
> +	default 3
>  	depends on SATA_AHCI
>  	help
>  	  Select the Default SATA Link Power Management (LPM) policy to use

I am OK with this change. However, for this one, given that we already are at
mid-rc6, I really would prefer waiting for next cycle to have this spend more
time in for-next testing. So let's apply this once 6.10-rc1 is out.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research