Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 18:18:10 EST


On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 06:31, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:26, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Yes.
>
> Well, that makes the suspend and resume functions rather complex.
> They're not going to be coded simply if we have to save and restore the
> register state of the cards and reinitialise them. I assume if you had
> to pick three drivers to do this for, that would be aic7xxx, aic79xx and
> sym_2?

It's not simple for some chips, it's simple for others, in lots of
cases, it's just a matter of re-doing the driver init code though.

Ben.


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