Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] [SCSI] sr: adds Zero-power ODD support

[Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxx> wrote:

[.....]

> For the ODD to be put into suspend state, the conditions should be:
> 1 tray closed
> 2 no media inside
> I think we missed the condition 1 check now.
>
> And if we follow the two conditions, the events can be safely ignored.
>
> What do you think of blocking events for it when going to suspend and unblocking
> when resume? This could erase the unnecessary calls of the check events function
> when ODD is suspended.

Good idea.
Will try this.

> But disk_(un)block_events are not exported and can't be used in sr
> module. So I'm
> not sure how to do this.

We can simply export it.

>
> Another thing to consider is, user might want to eject the tray by
> software like the
> eject /dev/sr0 command or some UI mouse clicks against the cdrom icon. I'm still
> thinking how to do this correctly.

Assume eject /dev/sr0 is implemented as:

int fd = open("/dev/sr0", ...)
ioctl(fd, CDROMEJECT)

We may need to resume ODD in the ioctl handler(scsi_cmd_ioctl).

Thanks,
Lin Ming
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