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Message-ID: <466DA9DD.8080004@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:00:29 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
CC: james.bottomley@...eleye.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
htejun@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] Expose Power Management Policy option to users
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> This patch will modify the scsi and ata subsystem to allow
> users to set a power management policy for the link.
> libata drivers can define a function (enable_pm) that will
> perform hardware specific actions to enable whatever power
> management policy the user sets up if the driver supports
> it. This power management policy will be activated after
> all disks have been enumerated and intialized.
>
> The scsi subsystem will create a new sysfs file for each
> host in /sys/class/scsi_host called "link_power_management_policy".
> This file can have 3 possible values:
>
> Value Meaning
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> min_power User wishes the link to conserve power as much as
> possible, even at the cost of some performance
>
> max_performance User wants priority to be on performance, not power
> savings
>
> medium_power User wants power savings, with less performance cost
> than min_power (but less power savings as well).
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
seems OK at first glance, though I request that ata and scsi portions be
split into separate patches
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