On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Aaron Lu wrote: > > What happens if you're not running a desktop graphical environment, so > > gvfs doesn't mount the disc? Basically, I'm worried that the drive may > > remain suspended after sr_open() returns. > > Tried on my notebook with a normal ODD, using mplayer under console > mode, no GUI environment running, works fine. > > The usage count will be incremented by the app, and get decreased > only when it exits. So the ODD will not be in runtime suspended state > when the app is running. You missed my point. What happens when sr_open() gets called? It doesn't try to resume the device. Will we run into trouble then? > > What happens if you use a program other than rhythmbox? There are (or > > used to be) programs which would issue the PLAY AUDIO command and then > > exit. The drive would continue playing even while the device file was > > Then we indeed have a problem. But I didn't find any such app in > Fedora's repo or by searching the internet. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2392183/dir/redhat_5.x/com/cdp-0.33-10.i386.rpm.html > > closed. Do we want to drop support for that kind of behavior? > > I don't think we should drop such support. > And the safest way to avoid such break is we refine the suspend > condition for ODD, and using what ZPODD defined condition isn't that > bad to me: > - for tray type, no media inside and tray close; > - for slot type, no media inside. > While whether tray is closed or not may not be that important, but at > least we should make sure there is no media inside. > > Thoughts? That sounds reasonable to me, at least as a first step. If people want their CD drive to suspend, they can eject the disc. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
