On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 11:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 11:13 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > > More importantly, if we already know that the medium is not present or > > > has been changed since it was last used, then there's no reason to call > > > sd_sync_cache() at all. > > > > Like this? > > Yes, I like this a lot better, except I would put the test for > !sdkp->media_present in sd_suspend_common() -- no need to print the But your observation that it makes no sense while no medium is present is valid whatever be the reason for wanting to flush. > "Synchronizing SCSI Cache" message if you're not going to go through > with it. > > What do the SCSI people think? I don't know. I would like Andy to test before I ask. Regards Oliver