Re: SATA status report updated

From: Erik Slagter
Date: Sat Aug 13 2005 - 03:49:48 EST


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:30 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the
> >>software status report:
> >>
> >> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html
> >
> >
> > I couldn't see any reference to system-wide power management (ie,
> > suspend/resume of machines with SATA interfaces) - is any work going on
> > in that area at the moment?
>
> Jens Axboe @ SuSE posted a patch that needs some work. So, it's on the
> radar screen, but I haven't seen any new work recently.

Ah, the sata-suspend patch. Also very needed. Extensively used over here
on various kernels (2.6.11 and 2.6.12 versions), no problems, works like
a charm imho.

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