From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] ZPODD patches Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:05:15 +0200 Message-ID: <3371596.56tAzlQG23@linux-lqwf.site> References: <1347438597-5903-1-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> <20120919080328.GA4283@mint-spring.sh.intel.com> <1348057667.2479.33.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42667 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751580Ab2ISNGv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:06:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1348057667.2479.33.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Aaron Lu , Alan Stern , Jeff Garzik , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Lu On Wednesday 19 September 2012 13:27:47 James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 16:03 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > > Hi James, > >=20 > > May I know if this patchset will enter v3.7? >=20 > Sigh, well, I was hoping to persuade the PM people to sort this out > first. >=20 > The first observation is that all this looks to be too specific. ZPO > may be ACPI specific, but the property it abstracts: whether the > particular device is powered off or not is generic and probably shoul= d > be known at the generic PM level. Nothing actually really cares abou= t > how we power off the device until you get all the way down to the ACP= I > controller. The SCSI layer however needs to know whether the cache is handled by the OS or in the device and under which circumstances a device can detect media change events. Regards Oliver --=20 - - -=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=F6= rffer, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg)=20 Maxfeldstra=DFe 5 =20 90409 N=FCrnberg=20 Germany=20 - - -=20 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html