netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/12] usbnet: introduce usbnet 3 command helpers

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:05:48 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] usbnet: introduce usbnet 3 command helpers

On Thursday 11 October 2012 16:14:02 Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 October 2012 11:18:22 Ming Lei wrote:
> 
> >> Currently scsi disk can only be runtime suspended when the device is not
> >> opened, so are you sure that the paging out above can cause IO on a suspend
> >> usb mass storage disk which is not mounted or opened by utility now?
> >
> > We definitely do not wish to keep it that way. People at Intel are currently working
> > on better power management for sd, which would allow full autosuspend.
> 
> OK, got it.
> 
> For auto-resume situation, it can be solved with switching the gpf_t flag
> runtime inside helper, but I think it is better to do it after the sd's
> full autosuspend is seen in -next tree.

That depends on whether an API change would be necessary.
Changing the code only when necessary is no problem. But the
API I want to do right from the beginning if that is possible.

This depends on whether you get in your extension to task_struct.
If you do, we can certainly use it also for the suspend case.

> For error handling case, it is inevitably for usbnet to allocate memory
> with GFP_KERNEL because no usbnet drivers have implemented
> .pre_reset and .post_reset callback, and no such actual problems
> have been reported until now, so it should be OK to not consider the
> case now.
> 
> So could we merge the patch set[1-11] first?

Given the solution for error handling you came up with, yes, we can.
Would you resubmit?

	Regards
		Oliver

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