From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:04:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca> References: <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org> <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com> <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Jeff Garzik , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >>So currently we are in limbo... > > Which is a shame, since it means that software suspend on sata is > basically impossible :) Except that it actually does work, with Jen's patch. Rather than sitting around for another six months hoping the problem will go away (it won't), perhaps we should just update/merge Jen's patch as a sorely needed interim fix. This might then prod James et al into looking more at the SCSI side of things, and some year we might see this get replaced with a better scheme. This is a real problem, and an immediate solution is needed last spring. Cheers