From: Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: track spindown status and skip spindown_compat if possible
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:53:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20070515T133840-438@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46498B82.1030802@gmail.com
Tejun Heo <htejun <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> 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.
>
Working around the workaround won't make confusion? Won't this break again
implementations that was actually issuing STANDBYNOW, assuming that they
actually exist? Only wondering, can't say for any init implementation in
particular.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-15 11:53 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 [this message]
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
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