From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: track spindown status and skip spindown_compat if possible
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:22:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464A9504.1020405@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46498B82.1030802@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Our assumption that most distros issue STANDBYNOW seems wrong. The
> upstream sysvinit and thus many distros including gentoo and opensuse
> don't take any action for libata disks on spindown. We can skip
> compat handling for these distros so that they don't need to update
> anything to take advantage of kernel-side shutdown.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> This patch is generated on top of fix-shutdown-warning-message-printing.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/18823
>
> Jeff, I think we can avoid a lot of problems with this. Those distros
> which didn't do anything on shutdown would still cause emergency
> unload on older kernels but at least it isn't a regression and things
> should just work on newer kernels.
>
> If you ack this, I'll update the shutdown.html page accordingly.
> Thanks.
applied to #upstream-fixes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-15 10:29 [PATCH] libata: track spindown status and skip spindown_compat if possible Tejun Heo
2007-05-15 11:53 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-15 12:03 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-15 12:12 ` Stephen Clark
2007-05-15 12:17 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-15 16:44 ` Francesco Pretto
2007-05-16 5:22 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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