Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management

[Nathan Bryant]

James Bottomley wrote:

> Why?  We don't do a bus reset on boot, why should we need to do one on
> resume?  For FC, the equivalent, a LIP Reset can be rather nasty on a
> SAN and should be avoided.
>  
that can be host specific. aic7xxx does a bus reset on boot, so i 
preserved this on resume.

don't know why they do it, but they do.

> The slight problem is probably going to be knowing that we may need to
> spin up devices (for internal ones) before resuming operation.
>  
that's easy for system suspend, but somewhat harder for device suspend
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