Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266420AbUAVTwv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:52:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266422AbUAVTwv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:52:51 -0500 Received: from ore.jhcloos.com ([64.240.156.239]:41220 "EHLO ore.jhcloos.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266420AbUAVTws (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:52:48 -0500 To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off. From: "James H. Cloos Jr." In-Reply-To: <1074800199.12771.110.camel@laptop-linux> (Nigel Cunningham's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:36:40 +1300") References: <1074735774.31963.82.camel@laptop-linux> <20040121234956.557d8a40.akpm@osdl.org> <200401220813.i0M8DX4Q000511@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <1074800199.12771.110.camel@laptop-linux> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:52:33 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 563 Lines: 9 >>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Cunningham writes: Nigel> Actually, we wouldn't want to call sync Nigel> anyway for reasons I won't go into here Sorry for the confusion; I didn't mean call sync so much as flush synchronously (ie wait for the drive to ack) thrice before the reboot. -JimC - 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/