[ltp] hdaps in Fedora 7

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:05:46 -0300


On Wed, 06 Jun 2007, George Avrunin wrote:
> I'd like to use hdaps on my X60 with Fedora 7.  I can compile tp_smapi
> without any problems (using HDAPS=1) and install it.  But I can't get
> hdapsd to run.  It starts and then dies because /sys/block/sda/queue
> doesn't have a file "protect".  
> 
> It wasn't clear to me from the thinkwiki instructions whether I needed
> to rebuild the kernel with the hdaps_protect patch.  But I can't find a
> patch for the 2.6.21 kernel.  What should I be looking for?

The queue freeze/protect patches.  tp-smapi deals with the hdaps firmware,
but not with the freeze-disk linux functionality, also needed by hdapsd.

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