Re: autosuspend for SCSI devices

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Aug 22 2008 - 16:49:31 EST


On Friday, 22 of August 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add support for autosuspend/autoresume of the SCSI devices. Lowlevel
> driver can use it to spin the disk down... and it is neccessary step
> for powering down the controllers.
>
> Spinning down the disk is useful - saves ~0.5W here, and it is last
> major thing we can do to save power on some small machines like
> Kohjinsha subnotebooks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

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