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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Rodrigo Ventura <yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch to put IDE drives in sleep-mode after an halt
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:11:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010524121152.A11086@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lx4rubc8kq.fsf@pixie.isr.ist.utl.pt>
In-Reply-To: <lx4rubc8kq.fsf@pixie.isr.ist.utl.pt>; from yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:03:49PM +0100

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:03:49PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
>         I am submitting a patch to kernel/sys.c that walks through all
> IDE drives (#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, of course), and issues a
> "sleep" command (as code in hdparam) to each one of them right before
> the kernel halts. Here goes the diff:

I'm not going to comment on the idea, just the implementation.  Eww.

First point is that this has no business being in kernel/sys.c - it
belongs in the ide layer, not the generic kernel.

Secondly, you have this wonderous reboot notifier list which you can
arbitarily register functions with throughout the kernel, and they
will get called prior to halt/reboot.  You should be using this, via
the register_reboot_notifier() hooks.

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-24 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-24 11:03 patch to put IDE drives in sleep-mode after an halt Rodrigo Ventura
2001-05-24 11:11 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-05-24 13:20 ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-24 13:52   ` Rodrigo Ventura
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-24 12:29 peter k.
2001-05-24 12:46 ` Adrian V. Bono
2001-05-24 12:59   ` peter k.
2001-05-24 13:18     ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-24 15:16 Petr Vandrovec
2001-05-24 17:38 ` idalton

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