Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:39:48 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Call to rewrite swsusp |
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> Talking with some people last night it seems we need to redo the > swsusp (driver). From what I've been told and have seen (from the > code) it doesn't talk to the generic subsystems (like block layer, > network layer etc). From talks with some kernel developers, they > tell me we would have to modify all the drivers to properly handle > system suspends. Is it not APM/ACPI's job to bring down the system > to a stable state when suspending the machine?
> The swsusp should be asking all the generic subsystems. When the > machine is about to be suspended it should flush any read/write > buffers, stop processing packets and other things.
> Am I totally wrong on this? :-)
Yes. Pavel
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