[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <200808222252.52947.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:52:51 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
Cc: oneukum@...e.de, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, teheo@...ell.com,
stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, Martin.Leisner@...ox.com
Subject: Re: autosuspend for SCSI devices
On Friday, 22 of August 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
>
> Add support for autosuspend/autoresume of the SCSI devices. Lowlevel
> driver can use it to spin the disk down... and it is neccessary step
> for powering down the controllers.
>
> Spinning down the disk is useful - saves ~0.5W here, and it is last
> major thing we can do to save power on some small machines like
> Kohjinsha subnotebooks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
-ENOPATCH
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists