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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:17:17 -0500
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>From 19617cfb1840abc69cc2fe74433007fc1daa1cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 05:32:28 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
> 
> This patch makes part of the scsi probe (which is mostly device spin up and the
> partition scan) asynchronous. Only the part that runs after getting the device
> number allocated is asynchronous, ensuring that device numbering remains stable.
..

Will this burn up the PSUs in loaded server boxes,
due to all drives spinning-up simultaneously now?

Just curious.
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