Hi pabs and Evgeni, On 05/18/2015 02:17 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 01:21:13PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, 18 May 2015 12:36:04 +0800 Jesse Sung wrote: >> >>> * Package name : freefall >>> * URL : >>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c > ... >> I notice that there is another implementation of this idea that supports >> more laptops than the Linux one, should these two be merged or what? >> >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/hdapsd > > The freefall interface is pretty cool and easy, because the decision is > done in hardware and the userspace only has to actually trigger parking > the heads. That's also supported by hdapsd (and if not properly, I, with > my upstream hat on, want patches as I do not own any HP/Dell hardware). > hdapsd also supports other motion sensors, that only report motion and > no binary decision. > > That said, I would favour only having one complete implementation in the > archive (and wonder why noone told me about the in-kernel tool for 7 > years), but would not oppose someone else maintaining the version built > from src:linux ;)
Sorry, didn't notice that the freefall interface is already supported by newer hdapsd. I'm totally fine with using hdapsd instead since it's more complete than the freefall.c. Thanks, Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55598cad.6050...@cola.voip.idv.tw
