Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Calling suspend() in halt/restart/shutdown -> not a good idea | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:41:23 +0200 |
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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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