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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:38:53 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com>
Cc:        MAG <mag@h26.216.elnet.msk.ru>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about shutdown 
Message-ID:  <199808131938.MAA00486@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:02:51 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811103256.9816A-100000@aries.fortean.com> 

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> I had submitted patches (kern/5863) which corrected the function of the
> halt/reboot -p commands and also prioritized and added a third kernel
> callout function list which gets called after all of the other drivers
> spin-down stuff is called (namely the DPT driver which uses the second
> shutdown callout list to sync the array...  Very bad to poweroff during
> that, take my word)  I don't believe any interest was shown, so I just run
> the patches here.

I just wanted to say that there is interest, and you're still in my "to 
do" queue.  I appreciate you mentioning this every time the issue comes 
up though, and I do still hope to get through my pile to your work 
before it goes stale.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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