From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756654AbYAFU4R (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:56:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752823AbYAFU4E (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:56:04 -0500 Received: from smtp-out001.kontent.com ([81.88.40.215]:58216 "EHLO smtp-out001.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752750AbYAFU4D convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:56:03 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum To: Alan Stern Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [FEATURE REQUEST] Transparent hot plugging of root file system on portable storage devices. Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:59:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Pavel Machek , Raymano Garibaldi , Andrew Morton , Denys Vlasenko , Kernel development list , USB development list References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801062159.46481.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Sonntag 06 Januar 2008 schrieb Alan Stern: > What about people who want to suspend to RAM instead of hibernating and > _do_ want to unplug the USB device containing their root filesystem > while the machine is asleep?  In this case we will _know_ that the > power session has been interrupted, but USB Persist won't activate > because the host controller never lost power. Would it be hard to force the persist feature on for a replugged device? Regards Oliver