Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes" | Date | Sat, 15 May 2004 03:05:06 +0200 |
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On Saturday 15 of May 2004 02:59, Andrew Morton wrote: > Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > It's a bit grubby, but we could easily add a fourth state to > > > > `system_state': split SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN into SYSTEM_REBOOT and > > > > SYSTEM_HALT. That would be a quite simple change. > > > > > > Like this. I checked all the SYSTEM_FOO users and none of them seem to > > > care about the shutdown state at present. Easy. > > > > Perhaps this should be parameter to device_shutdown? This is quite > > ugly. > > Rather than a parameter to ->shutdown it would be better to add a new > ->restart method to devices and IDE can implement one of those. > > I don't know if it's worth the effort though. Is any other driver likely > to want to discriminate between reboot and shutdown?
it seems only drivers/char/watchdog/alim7101_wdt.c (currently uses reboot notifier for that)
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