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FromOliver Neukum <>
SubjectRe: Power management for SCSI
DateWed, 13 Aug 2008 16:47:42 +0200
Am Mittwoch 13 August 2008 16:31:03 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> >
> > Add support for autosuspend/autoresume. Lowlevel driver can use it to
> > spin the disk down and power down its SATA link, to turn off the USB
> > interface, etc.
> >
> > Spinning down the disk is useful - saves ~0.5W here. Powering down
> > SATA controller is even better -- should save ~1W.
> >
> > Now, I guess the patch will need to be split to small pieces for
> > merge... I tried to rearrange it so that the documentation and hooks
> > go before stuff that needs the hooks, and before Kconfig enabler. If
> > it looks reasonably good, I'll split it into smaller pieces.
>
> James had a number of objections to my original patch; you can read
> them here:
>
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2008-March/016849.html

Very well. I see a basic problem here. For USB it is necessary that child
devices be suspended before anything higher up in the tree is suspended.
SATA seems to be able to power down a link while the device is not suspended.

In fact in true SCSI busses can be shared. So are we using the correct
approach?

Regards
Oliver


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