hdparm -B for netbooks

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 16:44 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:07:44PM +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> 
> > Whatever the reason, many users think it is better to change the setting - is there
> > any reason why the power manager should not make it really easy?
> 
> Yes - it's an option that's basically impossible to expose in a UI in a 
> sensible way.

Besides, 'expose every setting that some article on the internet claims
makes everything faster/better/stabler/shinier' is not a sensible method
for designing UIs.
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