Re: [linux-pm] Power management for SCSI

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > - suspending has side effects
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by that.  Suspension always has side effects 
> of one kind or another.
> 
> > Suspension in USB has always side effects. That's not true for other
> > subsystems.
> 
> Name one.  At the very least, suspending a device means you can't use
> it again without first calling the driver's resume method.  That's a 
> side effect.

IDE, actually. I don't think it is relevant, but you can do hdparm -y,
and it will automatically spin up when you try to talk to it next
time.

								Pavel

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