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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:04:46 +0100
From: Ulf Lilleengen <ulf.lilleengen@gmail.com>
To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
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Subject: Re: ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:20:42PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> I am playing with ata spindown feature and I think that it is really unnecessary
> to print a message each time ata driver is going to spindown a disk or let it be
> spinned up:
> ad6: Idle, spin down
> ad6: request while spun down, starting.
> ad6: drive spun down.
> ad6: Idle, spin down
> ad6: request while spun down, starting.
> 
> Especially this is not useful when "Idle, spin down" messages are going spin up
> the disk via syslog logging to disk :-)
> 
> Maybe put these under verboseboot if not drop entirely?
> 
Having them available under verboseboot or via some debug sysctl might prove
useful.

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Ulf Lilleengen