Cosmetic path to bsdinstall
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 24 20:14:23 UTC 2011
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:27:59 am Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:00:44 -0600
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at 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.
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John Baldwin
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