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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jagdmann@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: prevent hdd spin-down at system halt
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:43:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040901224326.56972733.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094035338.2399.33.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 11:01, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> > is it possible to disable the spin-down (or powerdown) of hard disks
> > when halting the system, via the kernel cmd-line or some
> > configurations in /proc?
> 
> If someone provides the shutdown infrastructure to determine the
> difference between shutdown/poweroff/return-to-firmware its easy. IDE
> already has an ifdef to handle this on Alpha SRM because the higher
> levels don't provide the ideal information.
> 

People are using the system_state global for this.  I guess this will suit
until it breaks, and we end up doing something else.

See sys_reboot().

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5d0f609904083107571d78a41@mail.gmail.com>
2004-09-01 10:01 ` prevent hdd spin-down at system halt Dirk Jagdmann
2004-09-01 10:42   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02  5:43     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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