patch to put IDE drives in sleep-mode after an halt

[Rodrigo Ventura]

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        I am submitting a patch to kernel/sys.c that walks through all
IDE drives (#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, of course), and issues a
"sleep" command (as code in hdparam) to each one of them right before
the kernel halts. Here goes the diff:

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--- sys.c.ORIG	Thu May 24 00:56:50 2001
+++ sys.c	Thu May 24 01:40:31 2001
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE
+#include "../drivers/block/ide.h"
+#endif
+
+
 /*
  * this indicates whether you can reboot with ctrl-alt-del: the default is yes
  */
@@ -146,6 +151,45 @@
 
 
 /*
+ * Puts IDE disks in sleep mode
+ */
+void disks_sleep(void) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE
+#define WIN_SLEEPNOW1 0xE6
+#define WIN_SLEEPNOW2 0x99
+	int i, d, ret;
+	unsigned char args[4];
+	ide_drive_t *drv;
+
+	for ( i=0 ; i<MAX_HWIFS ; i++ ) {
+		if ( !ide_hwifs[i].present )
+			continue;
+		/*printk(KERN_DEBUG "HD iface %s\n", ide_hwifs[i].name);*/
+		for ( d=0 ; d<MAX_DRIVES ; d++ ) {
+			if ( !ide_hwifs[i].drives[d].present )
+				continue;
+			/*printk(KERN_DEBUG "  - drive %s\n", ide_hwifs[i].drives[d].name);*/
+			drv = &ide_hwifs[i].drives[d];
+			args[0] = WIN_SLEEPNOW1;
+			args[1] = args[2] = args[3] = 0;
+			ret = ide_wait_cmd(drv, args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3], args);
+			if (ret) {
+				args[0] = WIN_SLEEPNOW2;
+				args[1] = args[2] = args[3] = 0;
+				ret = ide_wait_cmd(drv, args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3], args);
+				if (ret)
+					printk(KERN_NOTICE "Putting %s to sleep failed.\n", drv->name);
+				else
+					printk(KERN_NOTICE "Putting %s to sleep at second attempt.\n", drv->name);
+			} else
+				printk(KERN_NOTICE "Putting %s to sleep.\n", drv->name);
+		}
+	}
+#endif
+}
+
+
+/*
  * Reboot system call: for obvious reasons only root may call it,
  * and even root needs to set up some magic numbers in the registers
  * so that some mistake won't make this reboot the whole machine.
@@ -186,6 +230,7 @@
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT:
 		notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_HALT, NULL);
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "System halted.\n");
+		disks_sleep();
 		machine_halt();
 		do_exit(0);
 		break;
@@ -193,6 +238,7 @@
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF:
 		notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_POWER_OFF, NULL);
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "Power down.\n");
+		disks_sleep();
 		machine_power_off();
 		do_exit(0);
 		break;

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        Please comment!

        Cheers,

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*** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <[e-mail]>
***  Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda
***   Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR:
***    Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa
***     Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL
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