Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH 3/4] libata: reimplement suspend/resume support using sdev->manage_start_stop

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 16:05 schrieb Alan Stern:
>  
> > It's not clear what you mean.  That patch series removed some braindead 
> > code and added a facility whereby the SCSI disk driver would spin down a 
> > disk during suspend and spin up during resume.  How is this relevant to 
> > usb-storage?
> 
> Too much enthusiasm :-(
> 
> Nevertheless, is it actually correct to suspend devices without
> spinning the disks down first?

I think so.  The device itself should spin down the disk if it needs to.

Alan Stern


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