On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 02:26 schrieb David Brownell: > > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 2:32 pm, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > > > That's not in question. The issue is: Out of all the drivers floating > > > around, which one should decide when a particular device can be suspended > > > for lack of activity? > > > > Erm, not just _one_ can do it. Certainly any interface's driver can know > > that it's now idle; for example, if a network interface is down, that > > particular interface can be suspended (then resumed later as needed). > > Please consider scsi. It has no idea about what is going on.
In principle this shouldn't matter. If a device is autosuspended then it should autoresume whenever a new request (such as a new SCSI command) arrives. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
