Re: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9)

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:46:27PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > Something like this should already be enough:
> > 
> >   This option enables support for SATA suspend/resume using ACPI.
> > 
> > If you really need this enabled to be able to use suspend/resume at
> > all, you could add a line like:
> > 
> >   It's safe to say Y. If you say N, you might get serious disk
> >   corruption when you suspend your machine.
> 
> That's simply not true. If you say N (if you could), you could risk
> having a non-responsive disk after resume. However, it would have been
> synced a suspend time so you wont corrupt anything.

That's what I mean: I have no idea if it eats your disks or not. The
point is that if it does, it should be mentioned in the help text.


Erik

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