From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266142AbUALLN3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:13:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266145AbUALLN3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:13:29 -0500 Received: from [212.239.225.130] ([212.239.225.130]:43648 "EHLO precious.kicks-ass.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266142AbUALLN2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:13:28 -0500 From: Jan De Luyck To: Bart Samwel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Laptop-mode v7 for linux 2.6.1 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:12:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: Dax Kelson , Kiko Piris , Bartek Kania , Simon Mackinlay References: <3FFFD61C.7070706@samwel.tk> In-Reply-To: <3FFFD61C.7070706@samwel.tk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401121212.44902.lkml@kcore.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 10 January 2004 11:38, Bart Samwel wrote: > I've created a new version of the laptop-mode patch, this time against > linux 2.6.1. It can be found here: > > http://www.liacs.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/laptop-mode-2.6.1-7.patch Patch applied, kernel built, laptop_mode activated, but my disk just doesn't want to spin down... I have to activate it using ACPI BATT events, since my machine does not send out ACAD events. This is in /var/log/acpid: [Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] received event "battery BAT2 00000080 00000000" [Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] executing action "/etc/acpi/battery.sh" [Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES Setting HD spindown to 20 seconds Starting laptop_mode. /dev/hda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x01 (1) setting standby to 4 (20 seconds) [Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] END HANDLER MESSAGES [Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] action exited with status 0 [Mon Jan 12 11:26:18 2004] completed event "battery BAT2 00000080 00000000" Laptop mode is active: $ cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode 1 Commit values have been applied: $ mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda6 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail,commit=600) /dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail,commit=600) But the disk never spins down. Not that I can tell, hdparm -C /dev/hda always tells me active/idle, and the sdsl tool also reports 100% disk spinning... anything else I have to activate/check? -- To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish. -- Benjamin Franklin