On Tue, 15 May 2012 23:33:05 +0800 Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:35 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2012, Lin Ming wrote: > > > > > Add a flag REQ_PM to identify the request is PM related. > > > As an example, modify scsi code to use this flag. > > > > There already is such a flag; you don't need to add one. In fact, > > there already are _two_ such flags, and it would be best to remove one > > of them. In include/linux/blkdev.h: > > > > REQ_TYPE_PM_SUSPEND, /* suspend request */ > > REQ_TYPE_PM_RESUME, /* resume request */ > > > > Apparently they had been used by the old ide driver, but they don't > > seem to be used anywhere now. > > IDE code still uses both types and they are used for system > suspend/resume. See generic_ide_suspend and generic_ide_resume. drivers/ide is obsolete code though so we shouldn't be forcing its needs on the future -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a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