It's typically rare these days for the ATA subsystem updates in the Linux kernel to contain anything really noteworthy. But today some important fixes were merged for the ATA code to deal with a reported power management regression affecting the past number of Linux kernel releases over the last year. ATAPI devices with dummy ports weren't hitting their low-power state and in turn preventing the CPU from reaching low-power C-states but thankfully that is now resolved with this code...
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-ATA-Power-Management
Aggregated via Linux News
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-ATA-Power-Management
Aggregated via Linux News
