On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag, 16. August 2010, 17:27:23 schrieb Alan Stern: > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Don't we sync cache in sd when suspend() is called? > > > > Yes. > > OK, I am dense ;-) Sync or no sync? No, the fault is mine. I was trying to remember an old train of thought and got it wrong. It's not a matter of synchronizing the cache; it's a matter of writing back dirty pages from the page cache. Linux does this automatically when you close the device file. I didn't want to worry about devices failing to resume while there were dirty pages. > > You're right that the > > open/close aspect may not be useful. But let's check on linux-scsi > > before making any changes. > > Yes. Okay, I'll post a message there. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
