Hello, On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't know. I haven't really thought about it but as it's currently >> designed, I don't think it'll be possible to avoid going through EH to >> put ATA ports into suspend mode. > > Why not? It's just how things are designed now. There's no reason why it's fundamentally impossible but going around that would require some amount of hackery or preferably re-design. Synchronization against command processing, interrupts and all are built around EH. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
