Re: Notebook disk spindown

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 21:23:56 EST

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Hi!

> >Thanks for this patch. But why hasn't it been included into
> >the kernel earlier? Wouldn't be a combination of yours and my
>
> It's basically included into 2.4.x.
>
> >patch be the proper way? As far as I understand you switch
>
> Your patch is sure fine. BTW, 2.4.x have an high limit of 10 minutes (as
> opposed to 2.2.x that have an high limit of 1 minute). I'd suggest to
> clean the patch to only increase the high limit value (one liner). Thanks.

10minutes still seems little low for me. What is high limit good for, anyway?

Pavel

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