From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264893AbUE0RMl (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 13:12:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264896AbUE0RMk (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 13:12:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:30636 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264893AbUE0RMb (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 13:12:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:12:19 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 2.6] don't put IDE disks in standby mode on halt on Alpha Message-ID: <20040527171219.GA17111@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040527194920.A1709@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <1085675193.7179.5.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040527211113.B2004@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040527211113.B2004@jurassic.park.msu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:11:13PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:26:33PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > how do you flush the disks' writecache then? Halting the disk seems to > > be the only reliable way to do so. > > Isn't ide_cacheflush_p() supposed to do that on modern drives? that command seems to be optional to implement for drives unfortionately ;( --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtiFyxULwo51rQBIRAuM/AKCPn3mJ4cfSj252PdcGkZHcZAVQMgCfXzpb 47s84xU7LJe99wpzEd/vHSI= =C3KR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--