Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:35:55PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:37:13 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just out of interest, is this set on laptop bays? (Are any of those even 
> > native SATA yet?)
> 
> I haven't seen any yet that are.  Most of them are PATA.  I expect
> that will change in the future.

Yeah. My vague concern would be that on laptops, we can probably power 
down the port even if it's declared as being hotplug capable - we'll 
probably get an out of band signal from ACPI anyway. Not an issue at the 
moment, but possibly something we'll hit in future.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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