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SubjectRe: Calling suspend() in halt/restart/shutdown -> not a good idea
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On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:04 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Why are we calling driver suspend routines in these ? This is _not_ a
> > good idea ! On various machines, the mecanisms for shutting down are
> > quite different from suspend/resume, and current drivers have too many
> > bugs to make that safe. I keep getting all sort of reports of machines
>
> Well, powerdown at the end of suspend-to-disk should be *very* similar
> to normal powerdown => if device_suspend() breaks something, it is a
> bug in driver anyway.

Power Down != Suspend. Period.

> Now, we may have a lot of such bugs, and the change went in too early,
> but in the long run...

Crap. It's not the same thing.

Ben.


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