On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 09:02:44AM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Any API cleanup is of course welcome. I just wanted to remind you that > the underlying problem: broken block device runtime pm. Your initial > proposed fix "almost" did it and mounting works but during file access, > it still just looks like a runtime_resume is missing somewhere. Well, I have tested that proposed fix several times, and on my system it's working perfectly. When I stop accessing a drive it autosuspends, and when I access it again it gets resumed and works -- as you would expect. > As we need to have that working at some point, I might look into it, but > someone who has experience in the block layer can surely do it more > efficiently. I suspect that any problems you still face are caused by something else. Alan Stern