Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:26:07 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust128.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.128]:45300 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:26:06 -0400 Subject: Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in 2.4.19 From: Alan Cox To: Alex Davis Cc: miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020914182804.28287.qmail@web40506.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020914182804.28287.qmail@web40506.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-7) Date: 14 Sep 2002 20:32:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1032031927.13636.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 25 On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 19:28, Alex Davis wrote: > >Putting the drive in stand-by mode has the side effect of flushing > >the cache. > Maxtor's tech support says this is NOT true. Hint 1. Other people make disks too Hint 2. The guys who did the code include a member of the standards committee. > Ok how about this: I'm current testing some patches against > ide.c and friends. Why don't I just add ( and document ) a > define called NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN which would live in > ide.c. By default it would not be defined. Then I just wrap > the standby code in an '#ifndef NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN..#endif' > block. Unless Andre agrees the change is required in the new IDE they won't be going in. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/