On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 16:31 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > In addition to my earlier comment, the patch below should be applied. > > It will fix your immediate problem, although not in the best way. > > Alan, > > I think your diagnosis is correct, but not the fix. > This is run even in the runtime case. We might lose > data if the flush is not done. Actually no, the scsi_bus_suspend_common() routine does not run during runtime PM. It gets called only from scsi_bus_suspend(), scsi_bus_freeze(), and scsi_bus_poweroff(), which are all part of system sleep. Alan Stern