Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:11:24 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Mitya <mitya@cabletv.dp.ua>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cosmetic path to bsdinstall Message-ID: <201102241511.24989.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110224152759.00003c4e@unknown> References: <4D64FF99.2070908@cabletv.dp.ua> <4D66729C.6040303@freebsd.org> <20110224152759.00003c4e@unknown>
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On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:27:59 am Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:00:44 -0600 > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Having CAM devices be part of newbus would > > simplify this a very great deal... > > It's required if we're ever going to have suspend/resume working > properly because currently CAM doesn't get a suspend notification, so > doesn't know to spin-down disks etc. The controllers get a suspend notification though (via device_suspend() hooks that drivers like mpt, etc. could register for) and could then use that to post a suspend of the associated buses. That doesn't require CAM to use new-bus though. -- John Baldwin
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