Re: SATA suspend/resume (was Re: [PATCH] updated version of Jens' SATA suspend-to-ram patch)

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:34:37AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> is an ULDD operation, not an LLDD one, and this fits the layering model
> much better.  The only complaints here are cosmetics:
> 
>  - generic_scsi_suspend/generic_scsi_resume are misnamed, they should
>    probably be scsi_device_suspend/resume.
>  - while we're at it they could probably move to scsi_sysfs.c to keep
>    them static in one file - they're just a tiny bit of glue anyway.
>  - get rid of all the CONFIG_PM ifdefs - it just clutters thing up far
>    too much.

Actually one important thing is missing, that is a way to avoid spinning
down external disks.  As a start a sysfs-controlable flag should do it,
later we can add transport-specific ways to find out whether a device
is external.
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