From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH alt4 v3] libata resume fixes Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 17:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4478C15E.5030500@rtr.ca> References: <20060527195847.GA28334@havoc.gtf.org> <20060527205213.GA30686@havoc.gtf.org> <4478BD18.6010908@rtr.ca> <4478C08B.60308@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:16781 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964985AbWE0VPM (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 17:15:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4478C08B.60308@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > >> The ACPI patches have indeed been working here for over a year now, >> on all kernels up to 2.6.15 --> not needed for 2.6.16. > > Long term they are definitely needed, if only for the case where a drive > password has been set in BIOS. Otherwise when you resume, you won't be > able to talk to your disk. Additionally the preferences (such drive > acoustic settings) aren't reprogrammed, but that is of lesser importance. > > On laptops, the ACPI tables sometimes also hold special vendor-specific > taskfiles to work around device-specific or drive-firmware-specific > problems. Agreed, 100%. So why aren't they in yet? ;)