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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:05:42 +1000
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Nathan Bryant <nbryant@optonline.net>, Linux SCSI Reflector <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 06:31, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:26, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Yes.
> 
> Well, that makes the suspend and resume functions rather complex. 
> They're not going to be coded simply if we have to save and restore the
> register state of the cards and reinitialise them.  I assume if you had
> to pick three drivers to do this for, that would be aic7xxx, aic79xx and
> sym_2?

It's not simple for some chips, it's simple for others, in lots of
cases, it's just a matter of re-doing the driver init code though.

Ben.