Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: Introduce manage_shutdown device flag

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 10/27/23 06:36, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 10/26/23 05:01, James Bottomley wrote:
>> Heh, well, I was going to say we should still point to the doc, but I
>> simply can't find it, so the above is perhaps the best we can do,
>> thanks!
> 
> I think this should be documented in the Documentation/power directory.
> After having taken another look at that directory, I see that there
> is only detailed documentation and no overview documentation. Maybe I
> overlooked something but I couldn't find an explanation of the system
> suspend/resume nor of the runtime power management concepts in that
> directory. My understanding is that system suspend/resume is about
> system-wide power state changes (hibernation and suspend-to-RAM) and
> also that runtime power management is about changing the power state of
> a single device or bus if no activity has happened within a certain
> time.

I actually thought that James wanted a reference to scsi sysfs attributes
documentation, which is also not in the best of shape, to say the least...

In any case, I would like to push this fix for 6.6-final as this is a tracked
regression. Martin, James, are you OK with this patch ?


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research