Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A couple of thoughts come to mind:
> 
> a) Don't do it if the user typed reboot - only do it if we're powering down.

You'd think a parameter called shutdown would do that :>

> b) Try to do a cache flush instead.  If that fails (do we know?) then
>    power down the disk instead.

We're calling drivers_suspend and then sys_reboot for powering down, and
only calling sys_reboot when rebooting. Shouldn't cache flushes already
be happening?

Regards,

Nigel
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