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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: what handles disk drive(s) shutdown?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:56:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060210225605.GB1952@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602091407590.7095@shark.he.net>

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Hi!

> in Documentation/power/devices.txt, I read:
> 
> <quote>
> System shutdown -- at least disks need to be spun down, or data may be
> lost. Quiesce devices, just to make life easier for BIOS. event =
> FREEZE, flags = SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN
> </quote>
> 
> Is this actually done somewhere?  I can't find /SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN/
> in any kernel .h or .c files.

I think we do FREEZE during shutdown, but flags never got
implemented. It seems nobody really needs them, so...

								Pavel
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Web maintainer for suspend.sf.net (www.sf.net/projects/suspend) wanted...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-10 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-09 22:11 what handles disk drive(s) shutdown? Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-10  2:50 ` Alan Stern
2006-02-10 22:56 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-02-10 22:59   ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-10 23:06     ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 23:08       ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-10 23:16         ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-11  2:50       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-15 23:30         ` Pavel Machek

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