The following reply was made to PR kern/37508; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: joerg@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	juan@xtrarom.org
Subject: Re: kern/37508: After jmcneill-pm, disks are switched to standby before rebooting
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:42:55 +0100

 On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:40:02AM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  >  From the discussion about the PR mentionned above, it came that we should
 >  >  not spin down a drive on reboot or halt without -p, and an extra argument to
 >  >  the PM callbacks is needed. 
 >  
 >  I would like to avoid having to carry an extra argument that is used
 >  only by a few drivers. What do you think of extending boothowto to
 >  actually have a RB_REBOOT flag and use that to decide if we are
 >  currently going to suspend the system/drive or reboot/halt? I have a
 >  patch for that.
 
 I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the drivers should consult the
 global variable boothowto ?
 
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