On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 kaustav.majumdar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi > What I want to say is that if we will be doing a large file transfer > using the USB port of the PCMCIA device, then after suspend when we will > resume whether the file transfer will be resumed or it will be starting > all over again? > Let us suppose that the controller for the USB port has the capability > to resume the transfer. But the PCMCIA client driver will release the > configuration on suspension and get a new configuration on resumption > (as in a number of PCMCIA client driver). As the controller of the USB > port will be using the resources allocated by the PCMCIA client driver > and as per my understanding, during the new configuration the resources > can be allocated anywhere in the io space (no guarantee of getting > mapped in the same region of io space where it was before suspension), I > think it will be troublesome to handle suspend/resume in the controller > for the USB port if we will do nothing extra inside PCMCIA client > driver. This question should be posted on linux-usb-devel, since it's really asking about the behavior of USB host controller drivers. Right now, the only USB host controller with a PCMCIA driver is sl811, so you should also CC: the author of the sl811_cs.c file. Alan Stern
