From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Cc: miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in 2.4.19
Date: 14 Sep 2002 20:32:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1032031927.13636.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020914182804.28287.qmail@web40506.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 19:28, Alex Davis wrote:
> >Putting the drive in stand-by mode has the side effect of flushing
> >the cache.
> Maxtor's tech support says this is NOT true.
Hint 1. Other people make disks too
Hint 2. The guys who did the code include a member of the standards
committee.
> Ok how about this: I'm current testing some patches against
> ide.c and friends. Why don't I just add ( and document ) a
> define called NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN which would live in
> ide.c. By default it would not be defined. Then I just wrap
> the standby code in an '#ifndef NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN..#endif'
> block.
Unless Andre agrees the change is required in the new IDE they won't be
going in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-14 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-14 18:28 Alex Davis
2002-09-14 19:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-09-14 19:52 ` Alex Davis
2002-09-14 21:14 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-14 20:57 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-14 21:41 ` Alex Davis
2002-09-15 4:16 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-15 7:40 ` Alex Davis
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