From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/9] scsi: sr: support runtime pm Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:56:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1671780.QshOn4REzF@linux-5eaq.site> References: <50FA5F67.4080102@intel.com> <20130121091104.GA11010@aaronlu.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130121091104.GA11010@aaronlu.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Aaron Lu Cc: Julian Calaby , Alan Stern , James Bottomley , Jeff Garzik , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tejun Heo , Aaron Lu , Jeff Wu , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Monday 21 January 2013 17:11:04 Aaron Lu wrote: > It is not easy for the OS to tell if the drive is being used or not > sometimes > > Alan has reminded me it is possible for an app to open the block device > file(/dev/sr0), issue a command(play audio), then close the device file. > From the OS' point of view, we think nobody is using it. But actually, > the drive is playing cd for the user, so we can't suspend the device. Are there drives that support ZPODD and have an audio output? Regards Oliver