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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Hacked kernel with option to disable "green" mode
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> And you can't add the code by default because it's specific to a
> single hardware manufacturer,

It is now. But it's trivial to make the code issue the command only for
drives the comand works on. And to make it adapt to any new drive on which
we know how to disable spindowns. Also, there's extra protection because
the user has to turn on the config flag intentionally. So I think we're OK
here. So we can add it with confidence.

--Brett