Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I am using 2.6.23-rc9 with pata_sis. `modprobe -r sd_mod`, which I ran > from initramfs, caused all my disks to spindown - sd even told me so. > > I recall there has been talk a while back about whether to spin down > disks on shutdown or not, but I do not think it touched the removal of > sd_mod, did it? So either way, can someone fill me in why the spindown > is done?
The problem is that it's difficult to tell why a disk is going down from sd_shutdown(), so it issues STOP unless system state is SYSTEM_RESTART. Maybe we need to issue STOP only for SYSTEM_HALT, SYSTEM_POWER_OFF and SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
