Re: autosuspend for SCSI devices

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2008-08-26 13:01:43, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 11:43:55 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> > > firstly, it doesn't consider error handling before suspending.
> > 
> > What problems do you see with error handling? This patch does not
> > touch the error handling, and I do not think it needs to touch it.
> 
> You'd make scsi driver writers' life easier if you made sure no autosuspends
> happen while they recover from errors. After all, you have no idea which
> commands will get through while the bus is in disarray.

Well, they have to handle other commands while bus has problems,
anyway, right? So I'm not creating any _new_ problems for them. 

									Pavel
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