Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:45:05 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [regression] CD-DA delay needed after insertion (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10974) |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:41:51AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:32:15PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > > <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote: > > > > >> (May I ask-- why the hard starting/stopping of the interface? Power saving?] > > why the calls to sg_start? > > In this case, sg means scatter/gather, and it's a purely internal > interface. It does not start/stop the drive, nor the scsi interface.
That'll teach me to comment before reading the entire thread. Please ignore this mistaken explanation; I thought you were commenting on a patch, not on the commands used at the command line.
-- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."
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