Re: Stop SSD from waiting for "Spinning up disk..."

From: Jeff Chua
Date: Tue Jun 23 2015 - 11:02:36 EST


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:25:29PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>>
>> There's no need to wait for disk spin-up for USB SSD devices. This patch
>> allow the SSD to skip waiting disk spin-up by passing sd_mod.ssd=1 during
>> boot-up.
>>
>> If there's a better way to handle this, please share.
>
> Module parameters are never a solution for a device-specific property,
> sorry.

Greg,

SSD is coming mainstream and it doesn't make sense wasting time
spinning up "disk" ...


Jeff.
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