Re: ata: printf on every spinup/spindown?

Andriy Gapon wrote:
> I am playing with ata spindown feature and I think that it is really unnecessary
> to print a message each time ata driver is going to spindown a disk or let it be
> spinned up:
> ad6: Idle, spin down
> ad6: request while spun down, starting.
> ad6: drive spun down.
> ad6: Idle, spin down
> ad6: request while spun down, starting.
> 
> Especially this is not useful when "Idle, spin down" messages are going spin up
> the disk via syslog logging to disk :-)
> 
> Maybe put these under verboseboot if not drop entirely?
> 

Hi,

yah, I had some unpleasant experience with spinning down disks. That really is 
only useful for backup disks or similar disks which are not accessed frequently 
or used by any programs.

:) The HDD consumes in Idle mode only something like 1W so it isnt really 
economic to spin it down.