Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

[Alan Cox]

> Okay then are you wanting me to create a struct or bit mask to carry the
> the device settings/mode that is set before an APM/ACPI event happens.
> 
> Regardless that the answer is wrong, somebody/thing has to keep a copy of
> the device settings, and the case of swapout they get nuked.  Thus a
> reprobe must happen. yes/no?

Quite probably. It just needs to happen before we need to touch the disk. It
could be we need to mlock something or that the kernel needs to keep it