Re: linux-2.6.6: ide-disks are shutdown on reboot

[Rene Herman]

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

> With the recent version 2.6.6 my ide disks are shutdown on reboot, 
> this not happens with 2.6.5. I try booting with acpi=off and it
> behaves equal, disk shutdown on reboot.

Wildly annoying isn't it? Seems to be a generic problem with linux not 
differentiatinng between REBOOT and HALT/POWEROFF. Andrew Morton just 
posted a patch to deplex them:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108425291909843&w=2

You can wait for the IDE crowd to use that to implement a proper fix or 
staple the attached hack on top if it must go now.

Rene.


--- linux-2.6.6.orig/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c	2004-05-11 12:40:53.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.6/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c	2004-05-11 12:09:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -1704,10 +1704,11 @@
 
 static void ide_device_shutdown(struct device *dev)
 {
-	ide_drive_t *drive = container_of(dev, ide_drive_t, gendev);
-
-	printk("Shutdown: %s\n", drive->name);
-	dev->bus->suspend(dev, PM_SUSPEND_STANDBY);
+	if (system_state != SYSTEM_RESTART) {
+		ide_drive_t *drive = container_of(dev, ide_drive_t, gendev);
+		printk("Shutdown: %s\n", drive->name);
+		dev->bus->suspend(dev, PM_SUSPEND_STANDBY);
+	}
 }
 
 /*