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Message-ID: <20170526085225.GA28728@lst.de>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 10:52:25 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
        linux-nvme <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme: Wait at least 6000ms before entering the
        deepest idle state

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 03:06:30PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This should at least make vendors less nervous about Linux's APST
> policy.  I'm not aware of any concrete bugs it would fix (although I
> was hoping it would fix the Samsung/Dell quirk).
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.11

Just following a somewhat odd and arbitray policy from another driver
that doesn't fix anything by itself certainly isn't stable material.

And to be honest I'm not sure what applying it will gain us at all.

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