On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Phillip Susi wrote:

> On 1/16/2014 11:59 AM, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Since the START-STOP and TEST UNIT READY (or REQUEST SENSE or
> > whatever) commands are likely to take a long time, they should all
> > be carried out asynchronously with respect to the resume procedure.
> > I don't know what the best way is to implement this.  But it is
> > important to guarantee that in the RPM_ACTIVE case, the START-STOP
> > command gets sent to the disk before any other commands.  (This
> > isn't an issue in the RPM_SUSPENDED case, as the block layer will
> > prevent requests being sent out unless they have the REQ_PM flag
> > set.)
> 
> We could avoid that problem by having the resume_early issue the start
> command any time it leaves it in RPM_ACTIVE.

I don't see any advantage over issuing the start command in the resume 
callback.  Basically, the only difference between resume_early and 
resume is that runtime PM is disabled during resume_early.

Alan Stern

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