Jeff Garzik wrote:This adds code at a late stage (heading towards -rc4), but does
eliminate a particular spin-up overcycling behavior associated with
hibernation.
Rafael's extended description below... Separated to make it easier to
pull-or-not, separate from the other libata fixes. There shouldn't be
any merge trouble between the two.
SATA: Blacklist systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off
Jeff, I think this should be merged into 2.6.29 unless Linus still
objects. Linus, as discussed in this thread, this is workaround for a
hardware / firmware problem and vanilla windows also suffers the
problem, so as ugly as it is, we need this to prevent double spin down
on the machine.