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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:44:39 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] scsi: Allow hosts to be flagged as hotpluggable
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
> > The comment should specify what the actual effects of the flag are.
> [...]
> > (Is used by power management infrastructure to decide over runtime PM
> > policy?  I.e. don't enter power states which would prevent the port from
> > detecting/ reporting hotplug events?)
> 
> Perhaps the flag should be called differently (keep_ports_powered or
> whatever) --- unless you have additional future uses of the flag in mind
> which justify the more generic name.

Mm. I was actually wondering about that. For instance, laptop bays are 
hotpluggable but provide notification out of band and so can use ALPM 
without losing functionality. I'm not sure about "keep_ports_powered", 
but I'll try to think of something better.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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