Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] ZPODD patches

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wednesday 19 September 2012 13:27:47 James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 16:03 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > May I know if this patchset will enter v3.7?
> 
> Sigh, well, I was hoping to persuade the PM people to sort this out
> first.
> 
> The first observation is that all this looks to be too specific.  ZPO
> may be ACPI specific, but the property it abstracts: whether the
> particular device is powered off or not is generic and probably should
> be known at the generic PM level.  Nothing actually really cares about
> how we power off the device until you get all the way down to the ACPI
> controller.

The SCSI layer however needs to know whether the cache is handled
by the OS or in the device and under which circumstances a device
can detect media change events.

	Regards
		Oliver


-- 
- - - 
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 
Maxfeldstraße 5                         
90409 Nürnberg 
Germany 
- - - 
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux IBM ACPI]     [Linux Power Management]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux Laptop]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Resources]

  Powered by Linux