Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756065AbZCYBa2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:30:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757606AbZCYB3m (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:29:42 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:30346 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757786AbZCYB3l (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:29:41 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,416,1233561600"; d="scan'208";a="397287937" Subject: Re: sd-async-shutdown.patch [was: 2.6.30 -mm merge plans] From: Shaohua Li To: Robert Hancock Cc: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "arjan@infradead.org" , "James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com" In-Reply-To: <49C9885F.2090604@gmail.com> References: <20090323224615.cd29edfd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <49C9885F.2090604@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:29:37 +0800 Message-Id: <1237944577.15493.0.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:26 +0800, Robert Hancock wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > sd-async-shutdown.patch > > > > Merge > > This one seems questionable to me. Is this going to allow the machine to > power off before the disk shutdown is complete? That's definitely > something we don't want (for cache flushing and head unload reasons). There is another patch which will sync all device shutdown, so to guarantee device shutdown completed. Thanks, Shaohua -- 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/