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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:37:29 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management
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Hi!

> > Yes.
> 
> Well, that makes the suspend and resume functions rather complex. 
> They're not going to be coded simply if we have to save and restore the
> register state of the cards and reinitialise them.  I assume if you
> had

Can't you simply reuse bootup code? It will no longer be __init,
but it should make suspend/resume functions quite simple.

> to pick three drivers to do this for, that would be aic7xxx, aic79xx and
> sym_2?

No idea, only SCSI host I owned was some 8-bit isa thing....

								Pavel

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