[Bug 1268444] Re: Irregular place for hdparm default option introduces unexpected beaviour

[Tom Fields]

Correction second to last paragraph:
line 86 in debian/hdparm-functions

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Title:
  Irregular place for hdparm default option introduces unexpected
  beaviour

Status in “hdparm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  * bzr branch lp:ubuntu/hdparm
  * hdparm version 9.43-1ubuntu3

  Hi,

  in file debian/hdparm-functions (installed as /lib/hdparm/hdparm-functions),
  two default options for APM power management are set.

  Line 82: hdparm_set_option -B128,
  line 88: hdparm_set_option -B254.

  Because the hdparm configuration file /etc/hdparm.conf,
  also sets default options (quiet, -q) but explicitly has the
  APM default option (-B) disabled, this is unexpected behavior.

  This causes further unexpected behaivor, because most harddisks
  today do NOT support setting the feature, making execution
  of the resulting hdparm command in file debian/hdparm.udev-script
  (installed as /lib/udev/hdparm) fail with a nonzero exit status.

  As debian/hdparm.udev-script is executed with "set -e", the nonzero
  exit status of hdparm aborts execution of any further commands
  in this script. This is a problem when user additions are made to this script...

  Suggestion: Move setting of default values for hdparm to
  /etc/hdparm.conf, the regular place for all default values.

  See also spindown time setting (line 86 in hdparm.udev-script).

  To enable distinction between battery and non battery operation,
  the default values in /etc/hdparm.conf could be named apm_battery
  and spindown_time_battery, for example.

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