Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: AIC + RAID1 error? (was: Re: aic7xxx errors) | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:46:10 -0600 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> |
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>> MD (line 3475 of drivers/md/md.c) uses 0 too. Change it to INT_MAX >> and MD will always get shutdown prior to any child devices it might > >I don't believe INT_MAX to be a good idea. What happens if anything else needs >to shutdown prior to md (think of tux, knfsd)?
Your examples are processes (albeit in the kernel) which should have received a signal long before the notifier chain is called.
>As a suggestion it would be a >good idea if someone with a broader overview would define some reboot >priorities in include/linux/notifier.h.
And expand the codes that are used for the notifier. The current set of codes are not well defined and most drivers treat all of them the same.
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