Re: [RFC]add ACPI hooks for IDE suspend/resume

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 17:51:39 EST


On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 22:20 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> stuff doesn't seem terribly important. The reason for it not currently
> being implemented is that the IDE queues haven't been restarted at the
> point where this code is called, so there's no obvious way of submitting
> them to the drive yet.

Issue the task files in sequence to the drive directly with nIEN set and
poll them. In the libata case there is a clean API to do this but even
the old IDE has enough order and logic in this area it would not be hard
to do nicely.

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