Send/receive ATA cmds from a linux kernel module
From: valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-02 16:28:15
On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 08:54:27 -0600, Siddhartha Baral said:
I am trying to add a new thermal zone driver for HDD which will be part of the thermal framework in the kernel.
First Law of Systems Programming: Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle anyhow. If the disk reports that it is over-temperature, *what can you do about it*? If a CPU gets too hot you can reduce the clock frequency. You don't have that sort of option on a disk drive - especially from inside the kernel. You can't change its rotation rate, and throttling I/O won't significantly change the temperature (but can hang the system if writeback of dirty pages stops....) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 484 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20170202/f3fd7ce4/attachment.bin