Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:20:43 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: Status of storage autosuspend | |
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:19:11PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > Should we ignore this issue and submit the patches anyway?
> >
> > I think you should. "Easy" (and clean) solution to that issue is to
> > just return -EPERM from SG_IOCTL if autosuspend is configured in ;-).
>
> :-)
>
> Okay, I'll update the patches to 2.6.25-rc2 and submit them in a few
> days. (Actually the SCSI patch has to go in first and the usb-storage
> patch afterward, which will probably cause it to be delayed one kernel
> version. I don't know any good way to handle these cross-subsystem
> updates...)
Push the usb-storage one through the scsi tree as well. The subsystem
maintainers handle this kind of thing all the time (for example, a sysfs
feature is about to go in through the ocfs tree for this very reason.)
thanks,
greg k-h
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