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    SubjectRe: autosuspend for SCSI devices
    On Tue 2008-08-26 13:01:43, Oliver Neukum wrote:
    > Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 11:43:55 schrieb Pavel Machek:
    > > > firstly, it doesn't consider error handling before suspending.
    > >
    > > What problems do you see with error handling? This patch does not
    > > touch the error handling, and I do not think it needs to touch it.
    >
    > You'd make scsi driver writers' life easier if you made sure no autosuspends
    > happen while they recover from errors. After all, you have no idea which
    > commands will get through while the bus is in disarray.

    Well, they have to handle other commands while bus has problems,
    anyway, right? So I'm not creating any _new_ problems for them.

    Pavel
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