From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] scsi: Allow hosts to be flagged as hotpluggable
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:44:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090716144439.GA14345@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5F3ADE.2040109@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
> > The comment should specify what the actual effects of the flag are.
> [...]
> > (Is used by power management infrastructure to decide over runtime PM
> > policy? I.e. don't enter power states which would prevent the port from
> > detecting/ reporting hotplug events?)
>
> Perhaps the flag should be called differently (keep_ports_powered or
> whatever) --- unless you have additional future uses of the flag in mind
> which justify the more generic name.
Mm. I was actually wondering about that. For instance, laptop bays are
hotpluggable but provide notification out of band and so can use ALPM
without losing functionality. I'm not sure about "keep_ports_powered",
but I'll try to think of something better.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 23:43 [PATCH 1/4] scsi: Allow hosts to be flagged as hotpluggable Matthew Garrett
2009-07-15 23:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] libata: Flag most SATA ports " Matthew Garrett
2009-07-15 23:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] libata: Make it possible for host drivers to flag hotplug ports Matthew Garrett
2009-07-15 23:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] libata: Allow AHCI to flag ports as not hotpluggable Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16 1:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] scsi: Allow hosts to be flagged as hotpluggable James Bottomley
2009-07-16 1:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16 7:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-16 11:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-07-16 14:30 ` Stefan Richter
2009-07-16 14:36 ` Stefan Richter
2009-07-16 14:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-07-16 14:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16 14:43 ` James Bottomley
2009-07-16 14:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-16 14:53 ` James Bottomley
2009-07-16 14:55 ` Matthew Garrett
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