Re: Autosuspend for mass storage?

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Am Montag, 3. August 2009 16:18:41 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > yes I know it doesn't cover the case of sd when there is something
> > mounted, but still, nothing having it mounted is a very important usecase
> > for many people (cardreaders etc etc)
>
> As I said to Oliver, this sort of thing has to be done within the SCSI
> layer.  Only there does the kernel know whether the device is open or
> how the device is being used.

It has to be done in the SCSI layer using Rafael's framework.
But it is correct to say that the level of support needed for this
in SCSI is small. Indeed it is the simplest form of autosuspend
for storage devices that is useful.

	Regards
		Oliver

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