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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:28:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050922142855.GA29672@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:04:28AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Rather than sitting around for another six months hoping the problem
> will go away (it won't), perhaps we should just update/merge Jen's
> patch as a sorely needed interim fix.
> 
> This might then prod James et al into looking more at the SCSI side of
> things, and some year we might see this get replaced with a better scheme.
> 
> This is a real problem, and an immediate solution is needed last spring.

Folks, bitching around on lkml on this won't get you far.  Send the
patch to linux-scsi again, and explain what's the current stance on the
disk synchronize cache and spindown issues.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21  6:59 SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Joshua Kwan
2005-09-22  3:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22  6:18   ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 13:04     ` Mark Lord
2005-09-22 13:08       ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-22 13:24         ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 13:24       ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 14:28       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-09-22 14:17     ` Alan Cox
2005-09-22 13:56       ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 14:30         ` Alan Cox
2005-09-22 14:20           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-22 17:57           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22 18:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-22 18:08               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 18:11                 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 15:01     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22 10:36   ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-24 10:18     ` Jeff Garzik

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