Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management

Nathan Bryant
2004-08-12T13:41:45Z

James Bottomley wrote:

>Why? We don't do a bus reset on boot, why should we need to do one on
>resume? For FC, the equivalent, a LIP Reset can be rather nasty on a
>SAN and should be avoided.
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that can be host specific. aic7xxx does a bus reset on boot, so i
preserved this on resume.

don't know why they do it, but they do.

>The slight problem is probably going to be knowing that we may need to
>spin up devices (for internal ones) before resuming operation.
>
>
that's easy for system suspend, but somewhat harder for device suspend