Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:08:26 -0500 | From | Taral <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5 |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:52:29PM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote: > When a suspend transition is triggered, the device tree is walked first to > save the state of all the devices in the system. Once this is complete, the > saved state, now residing in memory, can be written to some non-volatile > location, like a disk partition or network location. > > The device tree is then walked again to suspend all of the devices. This > guarantees that the device controlling the location to write the state is > still powered on while you have a snapshot of the system state.
Aha! A much nicer solution to the problem the ACPI people are having with suspend/resume (ordering problems).
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