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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
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Am Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:10:48 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > But the transport and the driver may be in different subsystems, e.g.
> > usb storage.
> 
> We would have to add a part of usb-storage into the SCSI subsystem, by 
> creating a USB transport class.  Perhaps this class could be shared 
> with Firewire/IEEE1394.

That would be a specific solution. But the problem is generic. Take
for example HID. Several drivers may share one transport, but the transport
may be USB 2.0/3.0 or bluetooth.

	Regards
		Oliver