From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: Ejected Nook (usb mass storage) prevents suspend Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:26:38 +0200 Message-ID: <1375212398.17175.2.camel@linux-fkkt.site> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52424 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040Ab3G3T0k (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:26:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: Andy Lutomirski , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Linux PM List , Linux SCSI List , hare@suse.de On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 13:00 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > That's why I said the patch would fix the immediate problem but it > wasn't the best solution. You do agree that the patch is correct, as > far as it goes? It will allow the system to sleep. But it seems to me that a genuine error while flushing a drive's cache is one of the few things actual worth aborting a system suspend for. > If you would like to handle the problems in sd.c concerning the > sync-cache and spin-down stuff, that will be fine with me. Yes. The problem is not limited to USB. Regards Oliver