Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 13:36:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) |
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On Thu, 27 May 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Crap. Stop beating on those lost wakeup events. If we lose them then > the drivers are broken and do not handle the switch over correctly. Or > the suspend mechanism is broken as it does not evaluate the system > state correctly. Blockers are just papering over that w/o tackling the > real problem.
That's the point -- suspend does not evaluate the system state correctly because it doesn't have the necessary information. Suspend blockers are a way of providing it that information. They don't paper over the problem; they solve it.
Alan Stern
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