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-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html