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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] scsi: pm: add may_power_off flag
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:01:22 +0200
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Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>

On Tuesday 04 September 2012 22:24:38 Aaron Lu wrote:
> From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
> 
> Add a new flag may_power_off for scsi device, it gives the user a chance
> to control when the device is runtime suspended, can we remove its power
> if possible.
> 
> And if the device can be powered off(reflected by can_power_off flag,
> determined by individual driver), create a sysfs entry named
> may_power_off to let user control the flag.

Do we really need yet another interface to user space?

	Regards
		Oliver