On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:53 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Why are we calling driver suspend routines in these ? This is _not_ > > Well, reason is that if you remove device_suspend() you'll get > emergency hard disk park during powerdown. As harddrives can survive > only limited number of emergency stops, that is not a good idea.
No, that is bogus. We have shutdown() already for that and it used to be implemented at least by IDE. You are just blindly "dropping" the device_suspend() call in there without thinking. There is a lot of differences between suspend and shutdown, you can't "just do that". In addition to the number of drivers with broken suspend of course, causing many boxes to not shutdown anymore (and not only PPCs) Andrew, please back that off before 2.6.13. I'll try to send a patch if you want later today if I find some time with a kernel source at hand. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
