Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:13, John Bradford wrote:
> >
> > > > This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot.  That's
> > > > fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.
> > >
> > > I think it is an attempt to force some broken drives to flush their
> > > cache, but I wonder whether it will simply move the problem from one
> > > set of broken drives to another :-).
> >
> > Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is
> > misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way?
>
>
> A couple of thoughts come to mind:
>
> a) Don't do it if the user typed reboot - only do it if we're powering down.
>
> b) Try to do a cache flush instead.  If that fails (do we know?) then
>    power down the disk instead.


I'm either shock or very very worried that the reboot notifier that 
flushes IDE in 2.4.x, ide_notifier, is nowhere to be seen in 2.6.x :( 
That seems like the real problem -- the code _used_ to be there.

	Jeff



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