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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	hdaps devel <hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:49:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050818204904.GE516@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050816200708.GE3425@suse.de>

Hi!

> I would suggest some sysfs file for doing this. The best approach would

Actually it is usefull for other devices, too... for power saving.

Some people call it "runtime power managment".

> sysfs attribute for this and we integrate a proper solution once the
> request type stuff is finalized. As the user api, I would suggest just
> echoing a timeout in seconds to the file. So:
> 
> # echo 5 > /sys/block/hda/device/freeze
> 
> would park the head, freeze queue, and unfreeze in 5 seconds.

Please make it "echo 1 > frozen", then userspace can do "echo 0 > frozen"
after five seconds.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-18 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-16 15:25 HDAPS, Need to park the head for real Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-16 15:34 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-16 15:41   ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-16 20:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-16 23:15   ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-16 23:29     ` [Hdaps-devel] " Yani Ioannou
2005-08-17  5:53     ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-17  6:23       ` [Hdaps-devel] " Jon Escombe
2005-08-17  7:47   ` Avi Kivity
2005-08-17  7:56     ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-18 20:49   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-18 21:15     ` Adam Goode
2005-08-18 21:30       ` [Hdaps-devel] " Dave Hansen
2005-08-18 21:38       ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-19  6:36         ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-19 10:05           ` [Hdaps-devel] " Jon Escombe
2005-08-19 10:23             ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-19 12:41               ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-08-24 21:44   ` Jon Escombe
2005-08-25 10:57     ` Alan Cox
2005-08-25 18:14       ` Jon Escombe
2005-08-26  6:49         ` Jens Axboe

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