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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:03:46 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> Cc: 7eggert@....de, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, emisca <emisca.ml@...il.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot > Thought about that and querying power state before doing shutdown > sequence but things get somewhat ugly because shutdown sequence is > driven from sd->shutdown(). We'll have to snoop both sync and shutdown > commands and check whether the system is shutting down. Also, I felt > very uneasy about faking successful completion to SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE. If you see a synchronize cache succeed and you then see the drive shutdown succeed then you know that a sync cache can be faked as ok safely. Any other command in between or after and it doesn't get faked This seems pretty easy to deal with at command issue. > I dunno. It's already too late for 2.6.21. I was hoping we could get > distros to update shutdown utilities in not-too-distant future but I > have no experience with that. Is that just a wishful thinking? Probably not, but it will take a year or so and throughout this time period everyone with the wrong combination of shutdown and kernel (which will be a lot of people who compile their own kernels) are going to have problems caused by what is a very obscure piece of libata internal behaviour they'll never even know about. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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