On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:47 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > What we don't want to happen is for those disks to spin down during a > reboot. > It seems that this is OK with this patch. > > Also, we probably don't want them to be spun down during a kexec_load, > but > I expect that's OK too. Actually, there's another case where we don't want to do spin down, and that's when we don't own the disc (think external array on a SAN). Telling this has always been the biggest stumbling block to spin down of SCSI devices. There's a patch similar to yours which takes this into account, which is currently under discussion: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116922621200002 James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
