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Message-ID: <20080930174151.GB13822@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:41:51 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Monty Montgomery <monty@...h.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] CD-DA delay needed after insertion (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10974)

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:32:15PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com> wrote:
> 
> >> (May I ask-- why the hard starting/stopping of the interface?  Power saving?]
> why the calls to sg_start?

In this case, sg means scatter/gather, and it's a purely internal
interface.  It does not start/stop the drive, nor the scsi interface.

-- 
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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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