Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:49:37 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Reminder for feature libata spindown skipping and warning removal date Dec 2008 |
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Hello Tejun, > > What: libata spindown skipping and warning > When: Dec 2008 > Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin > down libata disks because libata didn't use to spin down disk on > system halt (only synchronized caches). > Spin down on system halt is now implemented. sysfs node > /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop is present if > spin down support is available. > Because issuing spin down command to an already spun down disk > makes some disks spin up just to spin down again, libata tracks > device spindown status to skip the extra spindown command and > warn about it. > This is to give userspace tools the time to get updated and will > be removed after userspace is reasonably updated. > Who: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> > > If you are facing any issue regarding feature removal kindly update the > "Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt" like what you are waiting > for.
Thanks for the reminder. Just sent out patch to kill the feature. :-)
-- tejun
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