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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] scsi: pm: use autosuspend if device supports it
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:44:24 +0200
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On Thursday 26 July 2012 18:05:24 Aaron Lu wrote:
> If the device is using autosuspend, when scsi_autopm_put_device is
> called for it, use autosuspend runtime pm calls instead of the sync
> call.

What is the purpose of this approach?
You need a very good reason to have an API do two different things
based on this.

	Regards
		Oliver