Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:57:33 +0100 | From | Franck Bui-Huu <> | Subject | Re: apm emulation driver broken ? |
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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 17 of November 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: >> ok so now we agreed on this point, can we assert that a user >> land thread waiting for an event in an UNINTERRUPTIBLE state >> will prevent a suspend to happen ? > > Yes. >
So this driver seems really broken and actually I'm wondering if it's used by anyone...
See the call to wait_even() made by apm_ioctl(). If any processes run this, it will prevent the system to suspend...
And no, I don't know why call wait_event() is called.
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