Re: Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes"

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > There is a problem with new 2.6 generic ->shutdown framework,
> >  it doesn't differentiate between reboot / halt and power_off.
> >  We may try to fix it or revert to 2.4 way of doing things if
> >  this is too big change for 2.6.
> 
> It's a bit grubby, but we could easily add a fourth state to
> `system_state': split SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN into SYSTEM_REBOOT and SYSTEM_HALT. 
> That would be a quite simple change.

I believe that we do not want to split that. These paths get pretty
little testing, and splitting testing effort even more could be pretty
bad.
								Pavel
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