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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:04:27 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, teheo@...ell.com, stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, Martin.Leisner@...ox.com Subject: Re: autosuspend for SCSI devices On Tue 2008-08-26 13:01:43, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 11:43:55 schrieb Pavel Machek: > > > firstly, it doesn't consider error handling before suspending. > > > > What problems do you see with error handling? This patch does not > > touch the error handling, and I do not think it needs to touch it. > > You'd make scsi driver writers' life easier if you made sure no autosuspends > happen while they recover from errors. After all, you have no idea which > commands will get through while the bus is in disarray. Well, they have to handle other commands while bus has problems, anyway, right? So I'm not creating any _new_ problems for them. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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