[ltp] Re: [PATCH] 2.6.17: Unload disks heads before powering down

[David Abrahams]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> writes:

> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, David Abrahams wrote:
>>    Is it also true on a kernel with the SUSE patches applied that "S5
>>    (power off) is *not* doing things right?"
>
> No, it is not true.  The whole point of the patches is to get S5 to
> do things right :-)

Rats.  I guess I'm waiting for a version that will work with 2.6.18.

> BTW, I really am not sure the patch will fix all incarnations of S4.  If S4
> is doing things right, it should (i.e. if it either calls the S3 or S5
> path).

Thanks.  Sometimes I think I'm better off not knowing these things,
though ;-)

But, seriously, thanks.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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