Hi.
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:54, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > Good question. I'm not certain if Pavel intended to add
> > > > device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) to the reboot path. It was
> > > > there in only one instance. Pavel comments talk only about
> > > > the suspend path.
> > >
> > > Yes, I think we should do device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) in reboot path.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Many bioses are broken; if you leave hardware active during reboot,
> they'll hang during reboot. It is so common problem that I think that
> only sane solution is make hardware quiet before reboot.
Sorry for my slow reply.
If I remember correctly PMSG_FREEZE was intended solely for stopping
activity when suspend to disk implementations are about to do their
atomic copies. I thought that ide reacts to this message by putting a
hold on queues, but doesn't otherwise do anything to prepare a drive for
a restart. If that's true, using FREEZE here isn't going to stop drives
from doing their emergency shutdown actions. Don't we need PMSG_SUSPEND
instead?
Regards,
Nigel
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