From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fixing halt/shutdown for libata spindown handling
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:42:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46498E7F.6040201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070515T122357-890@post.gmane.org>
Francesco Pretto wrote:
> Tejun Heo <htejun <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> Final question: should spindown_compat be set to 0 for both shutdown and
>>> reboot, or just shutdown?
>> It doesn't really matter. It just needs to be set while powering down.
>> You can set it anywhere, during boot, in shutdown.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Hibernate/suspend shall be also considered. Setting it during boot it's one time
> for every poweroff conditions, but i can't say if it's the best approach.
The compat thing is only for shutdown/powerdown. Kernel will always
flush and spindown disks on suspends. So, really, it doesn't matter
when you set the variable.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-15 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-15 3:29 Fixing halt/shutdown for libata spindown handling Daniel Drake
2007-05-15 8:20 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-15 10:31 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-15 10:42 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-05-17 1:16 ` Daniel Drake
2007-05-17 15:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-29 22:42 ` Daniel Drake
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