On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:40:56AM -0700, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> The driver knows when the last command it sent to the disk completed.  It
> can key off that.  Use a default value of, say 30s idle time that can be
> overrideen with some option.

The best thing would be then to snoop the setidle/setstandby commands to know
the delay ... 
if we're going to implement that much in the driver, better implement a disk
power management; it's almost the same work :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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