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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: device_suspend() levels [was Re: [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:18:00 -0400
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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.