On Thursday 28 April 2005 2:01 pm, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 17:40 schrieb David Brownell: > > On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:13 am, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > > Please consider scsi. It has no idea about what is going on. > > > > No more than for example an IDE disk does. Yet somehow > > "hdparm -S" lets the drives themselves spin down when > > they're idle for a while ... a kind of autosuspend. > > An IDE disk understands IDE. A scsi driver does not. Commands are > just packets of bytes. And we are talking about a much more limited > class of devices.
I really don't see what you're saying. If you're arguing that nothing in the SCSI stack can just notice -- as the IDE disk does in that example -- that no requests have come by in ages, then you'd have an argument on your hands. (If I wanted to argue something so self-evidently wrong.) ------------------------------------------------------- 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
