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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] expand link_power_management_policy definition
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:52:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4845E761.2090604@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603172307.1b963aac@appleyard>

Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> I think I mentioned on the list a couple weeks ago that I favor just 
> expanding the definition of link power management to include
> the notion of simply powering the entire port off rather
> than adding new knobs to sysfs.  I wrote this completely untested and
> very incomplete patch to give you a better idea of what I am proposing.
> This patch adds a new valid value of "power_off" for the existing
> link_power_management_policy sysfs entry:

Looks fine to me...  that would work nicely.

I think your patch is missing code to handle the transition from 
power_off to <something else>, though, right?

I'm quite happy with this approach.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04  0:23 [RFC] expand link_power_management_policy definition Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-04  0:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-06-04 16:08   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-10  2:51   ` Tejun Heo

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