From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: track spindown status and skip spindown_compat if possible Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:22:12 -0400 Message-ID: <464A9504.1020405@garzik.org> References: <46498B82.1030802@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53465 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762713AbXEPFWP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 01:22:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46498B82.1030802@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Daniel Drake , IDE/ATA development list 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 > --- > > 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