Re: [GIT PULL] async scsi resume for 3.15

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:20 AM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 18:24 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> Hi Linus,
>>
>> James might still be in the process of sending this your way.  However,
>> given the proximity to -rc1, my reasoning for sending this directly is:
>>
>> 1/ It provides a tangible speed up for a non-esoteric use case (laptop
>> resume):
>>
>>   https://01.org/suspendresume/blogs/tebrandt/2013/hard-disk-resume-optimization-simpler-approach
>>
>> 2/ You already pulled the first half of this enabling from Tejun.
>> Quoting Tejun's ATA pull request:
>>
>>   "Dan finishes the patchset to make libata PM operations
>>    asynchronous.  Combined with one patch being routed through scsi,
>>    this should speed resume measurably."
>>
>> 3/ As far as I can tell it is acceptable to James:
>>
>>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=139499409510791&w=2
>>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=139508044602605&w=2
>>   http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=139536062515216&w=2
>>
>> 4/ I promised Todd I would get it upstream before he returns from
>> vacation.
>>
>> Please pull, thank you.
>
> OK, so this missed the SCSI cutoff window because the series wasn't
> finalised until 17 March and, originally, I thought Linus would cut us
> off at -rc7 which was 16 March.  In reality we got an extra week, but I
> spent that ironing out a few late arriving bugs in the tree itself
> rather than integrating features.
>
> For drivers, I'm willing to buck the release protocols a bit because
> they're self contained, but for core features, they are supposed to be
> all finalised by -rc5.  Plus Linus bites me every time I do it even for
> drivers, so I was actually letting the scars heal a bit.
>
> I also don't see this in linux-next, unless I'm not looking in the right
> place, so it would be a bit of a risk adding it just before -rc1.
>
[forgive the resend... google apps converted the last one to html]

Correct, I did not push to -next as not to collide with an appearance
in scsi-misc.  However, it is on korg, so the 0-day kbuild robot has
seen it.
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