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    SubjectRe: Solving suspend-level confusion
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    > Yes, I don't call suspend for it because I can be sure the drivers are
    > idle (before beginning to write the image, freeze all process, flush all
    > dirty buffers and suspend all other drivers, I then wait on my own I/O
    > until it is flushed too). I know it's broken to do so, but it was a good
    > work around for wearing out the thing by spinning it down and then
    > immediately spinning it back up, and I wasn't sure what the right state
    > to try to put it in is (sound familiar?!). If you want to tell me how I
    > could tell it to quiesce without spin down, I'll happily do that.

    Very easy... with the current code, just use state 4 for the round
    of suspend callbacks, ide-disk will then avoid spinning down.

    > The sooner these issues get sorted, the better.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Nigel
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    Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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