From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]SCSI: don't return errors for failures in sd_suspend()
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:10:57 +0200
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2010, 16:38:17 schrieb James Bottomley:

> The most likely cause of error is cache sync failure so at the point of
> power off for suspend, we'll lose data.  This might not be an
> uncorrectable error either; it could be memory allocation failure or a
> host of other transient reasons.

OK, then I'll come up with something ultraconservative.

	Regards
		Oliver