Bug#785590: ITP: freefall -- daemon to protect disk for laptops with supported sensors

[Evgeni Golov <evgeni@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 01:21:13PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 12:36:04 +0800 Jesse Sung wrote:
> 
> > * Package name : freefall
> > * URL :
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c
...
> I notice that there is another implementation of this idea that supports
> more laptops than the Linux one, should these two be merged or what?
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/hdapsd

The freefall interface is pretty cool and easy, because the decision is 
done in hardware and the userspace only has to actually trigger parking 
the heads. That's also supported by hdapsd (and if not properly, I, with 
my upstream hat on, want patches as I do not own any HP/Dell hardware). 
hdapsd also supports other motion sensors, that only report motion and 
no binary decision.

That said, I would favour only having one complete implementation in the 
archive (and wonder why noone told me about the in-kernel tool for 7 
years), but would not oppose someone else maintaining the version built 
from src:linux ;)

Greets
Evgeni

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