Re: Spinning down sata disk before poweroff

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > A less intrusive change that's likely to work pretty well, I think, is
> > to introduce a new flag, DETACH_REBOOT or DETACH_STAY_POWERED, that's
> > passed to config_detach_all() by cpu_reboot() when the RB_* flags
> > indicate a reboot is happening.  Then, in the wd(4) detach routine, put
> > the device into standby mode if the flag is not set.
> 
> I'd prefer to have it the other way round then: a DETACH_POWEROFF
> which is set only for halt -p.

I proposed a patch doing this in PR kern/51252

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