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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] IDE Power Management try 1
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> What about this - add __REQ_DRIVE_INTERNAL, and carry args in
> rq->cmd[16] [0] = PM, [1] = SUSPEND/RESUME, [2]= STATE ? IDE can use it
> for power managment, error handling (do not do it from interrupt
> context, but queue it), may be more. This way it would really makes
> things a bit better with the complicated IDE locking. SCSI and probably
> other block devices can benefit from this internal requests too, so the
> bit is not wasted.

I agree. IDE locking isn't _that_ complicated ;) Though currently, we do
handle requests right on interrupt completion so error handling wouldn't
be deferred by this trick.

Jens, what do you think ? You are the blkdev.h guy :)

Ben.

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