Re: [PATCH] libata: device suspend/resume

Jens Axboe
2005-05-24T07:16:37Z

On Tue, May 24 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Tue, May 24 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>I can describe how this will look when libata is divorced from SCSI, if
> >>you would like, too...
> >
> >I was beginning to dispair you had given up that plan...
>
> hehe, nope. I promised Linus, and I plan to keep my promise :)

You promised me, too :)

> I know how to do it. Internally things have been kept as separate as
> possible from the SCSI layer.

We should start a list of items that could potentially be moved to the
block layer that libata currently uses.
>
> Bart even hinted at possibly using libata-without-SCSI for future
> /dev/hdX support. It's certainly doable.

>From my point of view, I think it would be a good way to kick off
/dev/disk device agnostic mappings.

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Jens Axboe