> If it's in the middle of any kind of write, suspending would
> seem to be unwise.  Say, writing to a swap partition...

No, you wait for pending requests to complete and keep further
ones in the queue. I will probably write the proper infrastructure
for SCSI hosts later this month, it has to be done like IDE, with
a special BIO "suspend" request so that things gets properly
synchronized.

> Mostly I'm just saying that if vetoing ever makes sense
> (and I understand that it does), USB drivers will need
> to understand it too.
> 
> - Dave
-- 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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