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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Nathan Bryant <nbryant@optonline.net>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: device_suspend() levels [was Re: [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:18:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090977479.2006.30.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10407260026590.1977-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 03:32, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> Remember to prevent suspend "BRAIN DAMAGE", scsi has host-hba
> dma-queue-rings to manage.  I have thought about this for a while and have
> considered a glass of scotch or two ease the pain.
> 
> SCSI != IDE
> 
> IDE is a simple child by comparison.
> 
> SCSI is painful because the hardware specifically prevents raw low-level
> access to the bus-phase.

Hi Andre !

That shouldn't be a problem in our case though, but the scsi layer more
complicated command queuing mecanism is...

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-20 15:22 [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 15:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-20 16:48   ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 17:46     ` device_suspend() levels [was Re: [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx] Pavel Machek
2004-07-20 18:10       ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 18:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-07-20 18:34           ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 19:10             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-07-20 19:23               ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]               ` <40FD82B1.8030704@optonline.net>
     [not found]                 ` <1090356079.1993.12.camel@gaston>
     [not found]                   ` <40FD85A3.2060502@optonline.net>
     [not found]                     ` <1090357324.1993.15.camel@gaston>
     [not found]                       ` <410280E9.5040001@optonline.net>
     [not found]                         ` <1090684826.1963.6.camel@gaston>
     [not found]                           ` <41029215.1030406@optonline.net>
     [not found]                             ` <1090694118.1971.13.camel@gaston>
2004-07-25  0:19                               ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-25 22:10                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-07-26  7:32                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2004-07-28  1:18                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-07-26 14:02                                   ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-28  1:16                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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