From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:32:29 +0200 Message-ID: <200709181032.29864.oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:58578 "EHLO smtp-out.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752139AbXIRIkM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:40:12 -0400 Received: from [192.168.234.16] (p549A299A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.154.41.154]) by smtp-out.kontent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DF65803040 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:31:51 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Hi, which function should a lldd call to make the scsi layer flush a device's buffers and spin it down? Which kind of locking is required? Regards Oliver