Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: sd: set ready_to_power_off for scsi disk

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On 09/13/2012 04:14 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 15:40 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
>> The ready_to_power_off flag is used to give indication to ATA layer
>> if this device's power can be removed when runtime suspended.
>>
>> This flag is determined by individual SCSI driver like sr, sd.
>>
>> This flag is introduced to support zero power ODD. When ODD
>> is runtime suspended, it may not be OK to remove its power.
>>
>> But for disk, it is always OK to be powered off, so set this flag.
> 
> It is? I may have missed this, but where do you flush the cache of write
> back cache devices you're about to power off?

I suppose that is handled in sd_suspend callback, the power off happens
after a device is runtime suspended.

Thanks,
Aaron
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