Re: Force IDE cache flush on shutdown

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:50:44AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Please don't use reboot notifiers in new driver code.  The driver
> > model has a ->shutdown method for that.
> 
> there is somewhat of a problem with that; the reboot command potentially
> runs from the disk in question, so that might never get called since that
> will keep things busy.

shutdown != remove.  Shutdown is called for all devices on shutdown, remove
isn't called at all at reboot.

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