Re: [RFC] Implementation of SCSI dynamic power management

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 20:42:23 schrieb Alan Stern:
> >  /**
> > + *     autoresume - perform dynamic (runtime) host resume
> > + *     @shp: host to resume
> > + *
> > + *     Resume (return to an operational power level) the specified host.
> > + *     Return 0 if the resume was successful, otherwise a negative
> > + *     error code.
> > + *
> > + *     Locks: struct Scsi_Host::pm_mutex held throughout the call.
> > + *
> > + *     Calling context: process
> > + *
> > + *     Notes: If the host is not currently suspended, this method does
> > + *     need to do anything.
> > + *
> > + *     Optionally defined in: LLD
> > + **/
> > +    int autoresume(struct Scsi_Host *shp)
> > +
> 
> This seems to be a bit misleading. It seems to me that you must cancel
> any outstanding request to autosuspend from other layers.

How about something more like this:

*	Resume (return to an operational power level) the specified host,
*	and prevent autosuspends from other software layers until the
*	template autosuspend method has been called again.
*	Return 0 if the resume was successful, otherwise a negative
*	error code.

Alan Stern

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [SCSI Target Devel]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux