On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Alexander Best wrote:
> imo this patch takes good care of the problem. would be nice to
> have it in HEAD.
No -- *Please* make sure that the disks are only spun down
upon an actual power-off command (i.e. when reboot() is
called with the RB_POWEROFF flag). In all other cases the
disks should keep running. It's not good to have the disks
spin down and then immediately spin up again on every
reboot.
Could you elaborate a little on why that's bad? It seems like it would
be similar to a standby/resume action.
Are there any other device drivers that differentiate the reboot and
poweroff actions that could be used as inspiration or simply shamelessly
copied in modifying ata-disk?
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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