Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030392AbVIVPB0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:01:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030394AbVIVPB0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:01:26 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:34698 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030391AbVIVPBZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:01:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:01:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Jens Axboe cc: Jeff Garzik , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? In-Reply-To: <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org> <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com> <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 34 On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Joshua Kwan wrote: > > >Is Jens' patch still relevant? If so, should it be rediffed and merged > > >into mainline? It doesn't seem to cause any weird side-effects. > > > > > >More importantly, I would be inclined to properly rediff Jens' patch and > > >merge it into Debian 2.6.12 kernel sources if there aren't any such > > >side-effects, since it benefits everyone using SATA and suspend-to-ram > > >(that is, users of relatively modern laptops.) > > > > Jens' patch is technical correct for SATA, but really we want to do more > > stuff at the SCSI layer (see James Bottomley's response to Jens' patch). > > > > Unfortunately, this also implies that we have to figure out which SCSI > > devices are available to be power-managed, and which SCSI devices are on > > a shared bus that should never be suspended. > > > > So currently we are in limbo... > > Which is a shame, since it means that software suspend on sata is > basically impossible :) so just go with Jens's patch for SATA until SCSI knows more about power management?? -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/