Re: [regression] CD-DA delay needed after insertion (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10974)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Sep 30 2008 - 13:42:21 EST


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:32:15PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> (May I ask-- why the hard starting/stopping of the interface? Power saving?]
> why the calls to sg_start?

In this case, sg means scatter/gather, and it's a purely internal
interface. It does not start/stop the drive, nor the scsi interface.

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