Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.

[Andrew Morton]

Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +static void ide_drive_shutdown (struct device * dev)
>  +{
>  +	generic_ide_suspend(dev, 5);
>  +}
>  +
>   int ide_register_driver(ide_driver_t *driver)
>   {
>   	struct list_head list;
>  @@ -2519,6 +2524,7 @@
>   	driver->gen_driver.name = (char *) driver->name;
>   	driver->gen_driver.bus = &ide_bus_type;
>   	driver->gen_driver.remove = ide_drive_remove;
>  +	driver->gen_driver.shutdown = ide_drive_shutdown;

This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot.  That's
fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.


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