On Fri, 04 Aug 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Log: > * Make sure SATA disks are powered down as well as IDE disks. Patch > from Sebastian Reichelt. (Closes: #348172)
I am *not* at all against this patch. But should we not be raising hell with the Debian kernel team to fix the &[EMAIL PROTECTED]&@#$ kernel to do SATA and SCSI device shutdown properly, also? Halt needing to power down disks is just a workaround for a broken kernel, really. It won't work always, it is easy to see a lot of border conditions on this patch. The first one is the extremely stupid idea that there might be only sda..sdh in a system, and the other is that the devices are named /dev/sd* in the first place (not true, depends on local admin config for udev). I have a patch from SuSE for kernel SATA device powerdown, that should be easy for the kernel people to extend for the entire SCSI chain, if they want to. What do you guys think? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
