Improper disk shutdown with 2.6.22.6?

2007-09-19 Thread Robert
Hello, When shutting down this system running Linux 2.6.22.6, I get a warning about the possibility that the disks are not properly shut down. When the power is turned off, it sounds like the disks aren't spun down (but I may be mistaken on that point). http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html claims

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add a drivers/ide style DMA disable

2007-09-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 08/22/2007 06:37 PM, Alan Cox wrote: This is useful when debugging, handling problem systems, or for distributions just to get the system installed so it can be sorted out later. This is a bit smarter than the old IDE one and lets you do libata.pata_dma=0 Disable all PATA

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add a drivers/ide style DMA disable

2007-09-19 Thread Alan Cox
This doesn't help distro installers with modular libata, as there's no good way to get the parameter to the driver. (libata.pata_dma=0 just causes unrecognized parameter message on boot.) And for how long have people been saying that Fedora needs to sort out passing module parameters from the

[PATCH v2] [POWERPC] Fix build errors when BLOCK=n

2007-09-19 Thread Emil Medve
These are the symptom error messages: CC arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.o In file included from include/linux/blkdev.h:17, from include/linux/ide.h:13, from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c:13: include/linux/bsg.h:67: warning: 'struct request_queue' declared

[PATCH 2/3] ide: remove redundant comments from ide.h

2007-09-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
There is better documentation for these functions in drivers/ide/. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/ide.h | 41 - 1 file changed, 41 deletions(-) Index: b/include/linux/ide.h

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add a drivers/ide style DMA disable

2007-09-19 Thread Tejun Heo
Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 08/22/2007 06:37 PM, Alan Cox wrote: This is useful when debugging, handling problem systems, or for distributions just to get the system installed so it can be sorted out later. This is a bit smarter than the old IDE one and lets you do libata.pata_dma=0

Re: [PATCH v2] [POWERPC] Fix build errors when BLOCK=n

2007-09-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Emil Medve writes: --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c @@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ #include linux/irq.h #include linux/pci.h #include linux/delay.h +#if defined(CONFIG_IDE) || defined(CONFIG_IDE_MODULE) #include linux/ide.h +#endif Why are we still

[PATCH v3] [POWERPC] Fix build errors when BLOCK=n

2007-09-19 Thread Emil Medve
These are the symptom error messages: CC arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.o In file included from include/linux/blkdev.h:17, from include/linux/ide.h:13, from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c:13: include/linux/bsg.h:67: warning: 'struct request_queue' declared