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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl,
	akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Force IDE cache flush on shutdown
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:50:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040506075044.GC12862@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040506084918.B12990@infradead.org>

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 08:49:18AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:04:49AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > +static int ide_disk_notify_reboot (struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, void *x)
> > +{
> > +	ide_hwif_t *hwif;
> > +	ide_drive_t *drive;
> > +	int i, unit;
> > +	
> > +	switch (event) {
> > +		case SYS_HALT:
> > +		case SYS_POWER_OFF:
> > +			break;
> > +		default:
> > +			return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > +	}
> 
> Please don't use reboot notifiers in new driver code.  The driver
> model has a ->shutdown method for that.

there is somewhat of a problem with that; the reboot command potentially
runs from the disk in question, so that might never get called since that
will keep things busy.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-06  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-06  7:04 Force IDE cache flush on shutdown Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06  7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-06  7:50   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-05-06  7:55     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-06 10:46       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06 10:52         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-06 11:33           ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06 11:45             ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-05-06 11:45             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06 12:36             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-07  1:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-06 11:38   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-07  1:09     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-09  2:00   ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-06  7:58 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-06  8:04   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-06  8:05     ` Jens Axboe

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