On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, James Bottomley wrote:

> > layer runtime PM. Accordingly, the SCSI bus layer runtime PM callback is
> > simplified as all SCSI devices that implement runtime PM are now request
> > based.
> 
> OK, let's now try for a descriptive changelog.  All SCSI devices
> (including sr) are "request based".  I think what you mean is "all SCSI
> devices which implement runtime PM have an exposed block device"?

Actually Aaron means "All SCSI drivers implementing runtime PM now use
the block layer's request-based mechanism."

> > Note that due to ODD will be polled every 2 seconds,
> 
> Since the device will be polled every 2 seconds
> 
> >  for suspend to
> > actually happen, the autosuspend_delay can not be set to more than 2
> > seconds or the polling interval has to be increased.
> 
> Is this true?  What about event driven devices?  Supposing a distro has
> a different interval.
> 
> How about
> 
> If your Distribution polls the device, the autosuspend interval cannot
> be set to longer than the polling interval otherwise the device will
> never suspend.

The default polling done by the kernel uses 2-second intervals.  Of 
course, distributions and users can change this or disable it entirely.

Alan Stern

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