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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 03:39:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CFDEA79.2980BF8D@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CFD50B9.259366F4@zip.com.au> <1023272806.15438.106.camel@bip>

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> 
> Le mer 05/06/2002 à 01:43, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> 
> > Also, it has been suggested that the feature become more fully-fleshed,
> > to support desktops with one disk spun down, etc.  It's not really
> > rocket science to do that - the `struct backing_dev_info' gives
> > a specific communication channel between the high-level VFS code and
> > the request queue.  But that would require significantly more surgery
> > against the writeback code, so I'm fishing for requirements here.  If
> > the current (simple) patch is sufficient then, well, it is sufficient.
> 
> Have per-disk laptop-mode, so that some user-mode proggy (e.g. hotplug)
> could decide what to do.

But why?

-

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-05 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-04 22:54 [rfc] "laptop mode" Andrew Morton
2002-06-02  5:46 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-04 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-02  5:47   ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-04 23:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-04 23:43   ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-02  5:52     ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-05 10:26     ` Xavier Bestel
2002-06-05 10:33       ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-05 10:55         ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-05 10:53           ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-02  6:43             ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-05 19:28             ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-02  6:41               ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-06 18:40           ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-06-05 10:39       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-06-02  5:55         ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-05 10:47         ` Xavier Bestel
2002-06-05 18:37         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-06-05 22:32           ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-05 22:39             ` Cort Dougan
2002-06-05 11:41   ` Hans-Christian Armingeon
2002-06-05 10:02     ` Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher
2002-06-05 11:05       ` Matti Aarnio
2002-06-05 11:10     ` Ingo Oeser
2002-06-05  3:41 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-05 17:07   ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-06-05 18:04     ` Frank v Waveren
2002-06-05 18:06       ` Frank v Waveren
2002-06-05 18:14     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-05  9:44 ` Martin Dalecki

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