[ltp] No HD spindown with 2.6.32-rc

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:29:57 +0100, tino.keitel@tikei.de wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I used to use a patched noflushd to spin down the SATA disk in my
> X61s after inactivity up to 2.6.31.  I get a high number of wakeups
> and frequent spinups with this setup and 2.6.32-rc, so I disabled
> noflushd and tried laptop-mode.  However, I can not get the disk to
> spin down.

For the records: I managed to fix noflushd to work with 2.6.32-rc*. It
looks like this kernel version doesn't like it anymore if
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs it set to 0, some kernel flush
threads will go crazy in this case.

Regards,
Tino