From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Status of storage autosuspend
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:20:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220062043.GA22308@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0802182214060.18685-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:19:11PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > Should we ignore this issue and submit the patches anyway?
> >
> > I think you should. "Easy" (and clean) solution to that issue is to
> > just return -EPERM from SG_IOCTL if autosuspend is configured in ;-).
>
> :-)
>
> Okay, I'll update the patches to 2.6.25-rc2 and submit them in a few
> days. (Actually the SCSI patch has to go in first and the usb-storage
> patch afterward, which will probably cause it to be delayed one kernel
> version. I don't know any good way to handle these cross-subsystem
> updates...)
Push the usb-storage one through the scsi tree as well. The subsystem
maintainers handle this kind of thing all the time (for example, a sysfs
feature is about to go in through the ocfs tree for this very reason.)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 20:27 Status of storage autosuspend Pavel Machek
2008-02-18 20:36 ` Alan Stern
2008-02-18 22:20 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-19 3:19 ` Alan Stern
2008-02-20 6:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
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