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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:14, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Even read-only access could hurt.... That DMA engine is going to get
> very unhappy if we change data from under it, right?

But we're not planning to change this area of memory (it's a driver
allocated coherent mbox) until we power off the box, right? so it should
be just like a reboot today.

James