Tejun Heo <htejun <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Our assumption that most distros issue STANDBYNOW seems wrong. The > upstream sysvinit and thus many distros including gentoo and opensuse > don't take any action for libata disks on spindown. We can skip > compat handling for these distros so that they don't need to update > anything to take advantage of kernel-side shutdown. > Working around the workaround won't make confusion? Won't this break again implementations that was actually issuing STANDBYNOW, assuming that they actually exist? Only wondering, can't say for any init implementation in particular. - 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
