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From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc: (Frank Schneider) <SPATZ1@t-online.de>
Cc: <SPATZ1@t-online.de (Frank Schneider)>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AIC + RAID1 error? (was: Re: aic7xxx errors)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:00:24 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010911020024.ast@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109102346.f8ANkAY23472@aslan.scsiguy.com>


On 10-Sep-2001 Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>> MD (line 3475 of drivers/md/md.c) uses 0 too.  Change it to INT_MAX
>>> and MD will always get shutdown prior to any child devices it might
>>
>>I don't believe INT_MAX to be a good idea. What happens if anything else
>>needs
>>to shutdown prior to md (think of tux, knfsd)?
> 
> Your examples are processes (albeit in the kernel) which should have
> received a signal long before the notifier chain is called.
> 

Granted. I could, however, imagine a fs to require a reboot notifier and that
would need definitely be processed before md.

>>As a suggestion it would be a
>>good idea if someone with a broader overview would define some reboot
>>priorities in include/linux/notifier.h.
> 
> And expand the codes that are used for the notifier.  The current set
> of codes are not well defined and most drivers treat all of them the
> same.
> 

Just posted sort of this request to the list.

> --
> Justin
> 

Andreas Steinmetz
D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-11  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05  6:21 aic7xxx errors Joseph Mathewson
2001-09-05  7:58 ` Olaf Zaplinski
2001-09-05  9:04   ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-05 10:27     ` Antonio Miguel Trindade
2001-09-05 10:44       ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-05 11:21         ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2001-09-05 13:05           ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-07 20:32   ` AIC + RAID1 error? (was: Re: aic7xxx errors) Olaf Zaplinski
2001-09-07 22:32     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-07 22:51       ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-07 23:37         ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-10 13:50           ` Olaf Zaplinski
2001-09-10 19:11             ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-10 22:29               ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-10 22:42                 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-10 22:55                   ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-10 23:06                     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-10 23:37                       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-10 23:46                         ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-11  0:00                           ` Andreas Steinmetz [this message]
2001-09-11 12:10                       ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-11 16:51                         ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-10 23:05                   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-10 22:46                 ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-11 15:00             ` Olaf Zaplinski
2001-09-08 20:25     ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-08 22:07       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-09-05 20:23 ` aic7xxx errors Justin T. Gibbs

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