Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pcmcia
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/22/2003 23:27:19
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:34:45PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> Oy. This means another power up/down cycle of the PCMCIA card to attach the
> disks. This is very slow. I purposefully avoided that in my previous
> changes.
Yes. That's true. We could disable the function in wdc_pcmcia_detach()
instead of just after the call to wdcattach(). This will, however,
leave the card powered up as long as it's in the slot. But is that
better? It's more of a power drain if you have a laptop and want
to keep the CF (or whatever) installed for long periods with no use.
That doesn't seem like an unrealistic usage pattern to me.
-allen
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