Re: SCSI dynamic power management

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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:16:12PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Regarding this thread's original question, the best idea I've come up
> with so far is to store an extra flag in the scsi_device structure
> indicating that a suspend or resume transition is underway.  When the
> flag is set, commands with REQ_PREEMPT would be accepted.  If the
> device is "suspended" and the flag is clear, then commands would be
> delayed or killed in the prep function regardless of REQ_PREEMPT.  This 
> scheme could potentially let unwanted commands go through, but I 
> haven't been able to think of anything more suitable.

You could allow only START_STOP and TUR to go through?

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