Comment 385 for bug 59695

This bug is more than five months old, and it is still not fixed neither in Gutsy nor in Hardy?!(?!?!)

I find this horrific, especially because there are multiple well known and trivial fixes, not just in this thread.

I would like to point out, that even applying the most trivial fix of disabling the APM power saving (-B 255) on every system by default is a magnitude better than the current state.
I doubt if any power saving could be achieved by this feature, because on most system something causes a spin-up of the disk either way (syslog, atime writes, journaling etc.).
And this feature has also nothing to do with shock-protection of the disks, that is the job of HDAPS and similar systems.
And even when it would save power, losing 1% of battery power is not so bad compared to loosing half the lifetime of a HDD.

Could someone please push any of the fixes upstream?