Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:20:43 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Status of storage autosuspend
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:19:11PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > > Should we ignore this issue and submit the patches anyway?
> > 
> > I think you should. "Easy" (and clean) solution to that issue is to
> > just return -EPERM from SG_IOCTL if autosuspend is configured in ;-).
> 
> :-)
> 
> Okay, I'll update the patches to 2.6.25-rc2 and submit them in a few
> days.  (Actually the SCSI patch has to go in first and the usb-storage
> patch afterward, which will probably cause it to be delayed one kernel
> version.  I don't know any good way to handle these cross-subsystem
> updates...)

Push the usb-storage one through the scsi tree as well.  The subsystem
maintainers handle this kind of thing all the time (for example, a sysfs
feature is about to go in through the ocfs tree for this very reason.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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