On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:44:45PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

  Thanks for the explanation, I will modify my package accordingly.

> That said, I am a bit puzzled about hdapsd though, since to my knowledge
> the kernel does the head parking anyway since kernel 2.6.28 and hence
> the package should be obsolete, or isn't it?

Since 2.6.28 kernel provides a way for userspace to park device.  hdapsd
reads the accelerometer data from kernel, decides if laptop is falling
and signal kernel to park hdd.  It is a connector between accelerometer
and /sys/block/.../unload_heads.
  

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