From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, teheo@novell.com,
stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, Martin.Leisner@xerox.com
Subject: Re: autosuspend for SCSI devices
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:04:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828080427.GD15474@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808261301.45167.oneukum@suse.de>
On Tue 2008-08-26 13:01:43, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 11:43:55 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> > > firstly, it doesn't consider error handling before suspending.
> >
> > What problems do you see with error handling? This patch does not
> > touch the error handling, and I do not think it needs to touch it.
>
> You'd make scsi driver writers' life easier if you made sure no autosuspends
> happen while they recover from errors. After all, you have no idea which
> commands will get through while the bus is in disarray.
Well, they have to handle other commands while bus has problems,
anyway, right? So I'm not creating any _new_ problems for them.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 10:56 autosuspend for SCSI devices Pavel Machek
2008-08-22 20:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-08-25 8:19 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-25 8:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-08-26 9:43 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 11:01 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-08-28 8:04 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-08-28 21:17 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-09-02 9:08 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-02 9:39 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-09-02 14:04 ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2008-08-25 19:47 ` Tino Keitel
2008-08-26 9:44 ` Pavel Machek
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