Tejun Heo wrote:
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. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> --- This patch is generated on top of fix-shutdown-warning-message-printing. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/18823 Jeff, I think we can avoid a lot of problems with this. Those distros which didn't do anything on shutdown would still cause emergency unload on older kernels but at least it isn't a regression and things should just work on newer kernels. If you ack this, I'll update the shutdown.html page accordingly. Thanks.
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