From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263834AbTLECut (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:50:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263836AbTLECut (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:50:49 -0500 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:15493 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263834AbTLECus (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:50:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 03:51:09 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa1 Message-ID: <20031205025109.GB1565@dualathlon.random> References: <20031205022225.GA1565@dualathlon.random> <20031205023811.GK29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031205023811.GK29119@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:38:11PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:22:25AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Only in 2.4.23pre6aa3: 90_ext3-commit-interval-5 > > > > Obsoleted by the laptop mode (I hope it's "fully" obsoleted ;). > > > > Maybe not. I saw one report here on lkml that showed that > ext3-commit-interval is still needed even with laptop mode. :( It would be a bug of the laptop mode patch merged in mainline in such case. I tracked related changes in ext3, so I assumed it was just covered. If it isn't covered, laptop mode will be useless because the hd will never go to sleep ;)