patch to put IDE drives in sleep-mode after an halt

From: Rodrigo Ventura (yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 06:03:49 EST

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I am submitting a patch to kernel/sys.c that walks through all
IDE drives (#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, of course), and issues a
"sleep" command (as code in hdparam) to each one of them right before
the kernel halts. Here goes the diff:

text/plain attachment: sys.diff

Please comment!

Cheers,

*** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585

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