[ltp] hdaps in official kernel 2.6.14 - many questions

[Alejandro Bonilla Beeche]

Nils wrote:

>Hi,
>
>it's really nice to find hdaps in kernel 2.6.14, but what it does ?
>- you can use the nice applications hdaps-gl and hdaps-pivot (you'll see that 
>it's really working!!!)
>- but, I can't find information about parking the head of the hd if my laptop 
>is falling to ground ? Does anybody know something about that ? Is it in the 
>kernel modul ? Do I need a user space daemon ? Where can I find such a 
>daemon ?
>
>regards,
>nils
>  
>
Jens Axboe which is the maintainer for most of these IDE and Libata 
interfaces has said that he will implement the support soon. We have 
sent patches to give the support for head parking but you know, there is 
people in the kernel that if it's not the way in their head they want 
something, then _they_ decide the support won't go into mainline.

We did all we can, now we have to wait for it to get included, dunno when!

.Alejandro