From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Rich West <Rich.West@wesmo.com>,
Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sata_via
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:45:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480173CB.5070805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F7F463.2060402@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Rich West wrote:
>> I was only curious as to what turning off power management support
>> would buy with regard to the sata timeout issue.
>
>
> ACPI is not only power management. It is all the information your
> hardware conveys to your OS, about the setup and workings of your hardware.
>
> Without ACPI, non-PM things like SMP, laptop dock/undock, and many other
> gadgets fail to function (or are configured sub-optimally).
>
> ACPI sets up interrupt routing, and Linux history is _loaded_ with
> _years_ of problem reports that appear as timeouts, only to be resolved
> as ACPI interrupt bugs (aka BIOS bugs, since ACPI tables come from BIOS).
Also, please give a shot at the sacred "irqpoll".
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <47F694C8.8020507@wesmo.com>
2008-04-04 22:04 ` sata_via Jeff Garzik
2008-04-04 23:44 ` sata_via Rich West
2008-04-05 7:15 ` sata_via Wander Winkelhorst
[not found] ` <47F7982E.5080701@wesmo.com>
2008-04-05 21:51 ` sata_via Jeff Garzik
2008-04-13 2:45 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-04-13 4:19 ` sata_via Rich West
2008-04-13 4:36 ` sata_via Rich West
2008-04-14 0:39 ` sata_via Tejun Heo
2008-04-14 8:13 ` sata_via Thomas Renninger
2008-04-14 8:32 ` sata_via Peter Gervai
2008-04-15 2:40 ` sata_via Tejun Heo
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