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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-07-03 11:46:12 +0900 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> | 2009-09-01 19:47:20 -0400 |
| commit | 051d9fbdd1d1ec85ea18ba20581234cf23f1c217 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ad5adda0326170be068578782129ce59c41f491 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | 6521148c6449724c3b707820b9c535c7e8b8afcd (diff) | |
libata: remove spindown skipping and warning
This was a hack to give userland shutdown tools time to drop manual
spindown. All popular distros updated quite some time ago and the due
is well passed. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 09e031c55887..b3b62903f08c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -206,24 +206,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- -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> - ---------------------------- - What: i386/x86_64 bzImage symlinks When: April 2010 |