linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] libata updates

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1207261054410.1295-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@....com>
cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <minggr@...il.com>, <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Aaron Lu wrote:

> On 07/26/2012 01:05 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:47 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> >> On 07/26/2012 05:38 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>> On 07/25/2012 04:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>>> * Updating libata to directly bind with ACPI / runtime power mgmt.
> >>>> This is a pre-req for SATA ZPODD (CD-ROM power management).
> >>>>
> >>>> Touches ACPI (exports++) and SCSI in minor ways. Has been in linux-next
> >>>> for weeks.
> >>>>
> >>>> The rest of [ZPODD] will probably come via SCSI tree, as it involves
> >>>> a lot of updates to the 'sr' driver etc.
> >>>
> >>> BTW Lin and Aaron, note that this did not include these changes:
> >>>
> >>> sr: check support for device busy class events
> >>> sr: support zero power ODD
> >>> sr: make sure ODD is in resumed state in block ioctl
> >>>
> >>> as in the end I wanted to put the brakes on SCSI-touching patches. These
> >>> should be able to go into James' scsi-misc tree with the other SCSI-area
> >>> ZPODD changes.
> >>>
> >>> For those three 'sr' changes listed above, you may add
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik<jgarzik@...hat.com>
> >>>
> >>> when moving them over.
> >>
> >> Thanks Jeff.
> >>
> >> Hi James,
> >> I'll prepare these dropped patches plus some other fixes for ZPODD which
> >> I've sent v2 recently and merge them into v3 for you to review.
> >
> > They weren't exactly dropped ... I've been waiting for you to address
> > Alan Stern's comments, since he's our resident expert on suspend/resume.
> 
> Oh, I forgot to mention, that I agree with Alan's comments and have
> addressed them in my v2 patches here:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=134312317325650&w=2
> 
> The 2 patches Alan has comments are:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=134312311025619&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=134312308225610&w=2
> 
> Hi Alan,
> Are the v2 patches look OK to you?

Yes, they are better now.

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

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