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Subject: Re: 2.5 Problem Report Status
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:03, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> Concerning the actual shutdown, I'm simply calling the ide driver's 
> ->standby() method. At least in the case of ide disks, there is a call in 
> the driver's ->cleanup() method to flush the cache. Should this be 
> moved to ->standby()? Or, should we call ->flushcache() for all drives 
> from ->shutdown()? 

I'll take a look. I need to finish porting over the 2.4 shutdown/eject
locking fixes that also touch this area

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