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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Calling suspend() in halt/restart/shutdown -> not a good idea
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:40:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ack0xuzq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050802095312.GA1442@elf.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:53:12 +0200")

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
>> Why are we calling driver suspend routines in these ? This is _not_
>
> Well, reason is that if you remove device_suspend() you'll get
> emergency hard disk park during powerdown. As harddrives can survive
> only limited number of emergency stops, that is not a good idea.

Then the practical question is: do we suspend the disk by
calling device_suspend() for every device.  Or do we modify
the ->shutdown() method for the disk.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-02 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-01 15:09 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-01 18:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2005-08-01 20:08   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-02  9:54     ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-03 11:40       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-03 16:53         ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-03 19:59           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-04 20:56           ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-04 21:04         ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-02  9:53 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-02 14:40   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2005-08-02 14:45     ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-03 11:43       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-03 11:43     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-03 11:38   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-04  2:27     ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-02 10:04 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-03 11:41   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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