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From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:52:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r7xrlq0u.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074800199.12771.110.camel@laptop-linux> (Nigel Cunningham's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:36:40 +1300")

>>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Nigel> Actually, we wouldn't want to call sync
Nigel> anyway for reasons I won't go into here

Sorry for the confusion; I didn't mean call sync so much as flush
synchronously (ie wait for the drive to ack) thrice before the reboot.

-JimC


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-22  1:42 Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22  7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-22  8:13   ` John Bradford
2004-01-22  8:26     ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22  8:45       ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-22  9:10         ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 16:02         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-22 17:13           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-22 10:08       ` John Bradford
2004-01-22 19:19     ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-01-22 19:36       ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 19:52         ` James H. Cloos Jr. [this message]
2004-01-22 21:07       ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <1gC8S-6UB-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1gIHq-3JU-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1gPzb-1OM-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1gQET-2Qn-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-11 21:46       ` Karol Kozimor

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