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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:18:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com>

On Wed, Sep 21 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Joshua Kwan wrote:
> >Is Jens' patch still relevant? If so, should it be rediffed and merged
> >into mainline? It doesn't seem to cause any weird side-effects.
> >
> >More importantly, I would be inclined to properly rediff Jens' patch and
> >merge it into Debian 2.6.12 kernel sources if there aren't any such
> >side-effects, since it benefits everyone using SATA and suspend-to-ram
> >(that is, users of relatively modern laptops.)
> 
> Jens' patch is technical correct for SATA, but really we want to do more 
> stuff at the SCSI layer (see James Bottomley's response to Jens' patch).
> 
> Unfortunately, this also implies that we have to figure out which SCSI 
> devices are available to be power-managed, and which SCSI devices are on 
> a shared bus that should never be suspended.
> 
> So currently we are in limbo...

Which is a shame, since it means that software suspend on sata is
basically impossible :)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org>
2005-09-22  3:14 ` SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22  6:18   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-09-22 13:04     ` Mark Lord
2005-09-22 13:08       ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-22 13:24         ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 13:24       ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 14:28       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 14:17     ` Alan Cox
2005-09-22 13:56       ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 14:30         ` Alan Cox
2005-09-22 14:20           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-22 17:57           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22 18:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-22 18:08               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 18:11                 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 15:01     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22 10:36   ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-24 10:18     ` Jeff Garzik

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