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Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5. This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS. This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times. To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems using DMI information. However, only the on-board controlles should be blacklisted and their PCI slot numbers can be used for this purpose. Unfortunately the existing interface for checking DMI information of the system is not very convenient for this purpose, because to use it, we would have to define special callback functions or create a separate struct dmi_system_id table for each blacklisted system. To overcome this difficulty introduce a new function dmi_first_match() returning a pointer to the first entry in an array of struct dmi_system_id elements that matches the system DMI information. Then, we can use this pointer to access the entry's .driver_data field containing the additional information, such as the PCI slot number, allowing us to do the desired blacklisting. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> |
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| acpi | ||
| asm-arm | ||
| asm-frv | ||
| asm-generic | ||
| asm-h8300 | ||
| asm-m32r | ||
| asm-m68k | ||
| asm-mn10300 | ||
| crypto | ||
| drm | ||
| keys | ||
| linux | ||
| math-emu | ||
| media | ||
| mtd | ||
| net | ||
| pcmcia | ||
| rdma | ||
| rxrpc | ||
| scsi | ||
| sound | ||
| trace | ||
| video | ||
| xen | ||
| Kbuild | ||