James Bottomley wrote: >> * Driver unload: Dealt the same way as hot unplugging. > > This is the problem case: driver unloading should have a > scsi_remove_host() in its path. This is the trigger that sends out the > flushes/stops and calls slave_destroy. scsi_remove_host() doesn't > actually return until all the destroys are completed, so it makes module > unloading wait until everything is properly shut down. > >> Making driver unload like explicit unplug request is possible but it >> will mean that drives will be spun down on driver unload, which can be >> annoying to developers. > > You have a sysfs flag to prevent that, don't you? Yeap, sure. It's the combination of things that always made me put this off. Is there a function I can call to just shutdown the host instead of destroying it? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
