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SubjectRe: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review
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Hi.

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:03 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:55:07PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Well, PPC people are aware of this, and they think they can fix the
> > drivers. We probably want to drop the freezer for suspend long-term,
> > so. PPC machines use small subset of all the drivers, so it apparently
> > is not big problem for them.
>
> I'm fairly certain that PPC uses USB. In any case, it's not limited to
> PPC - APM has the same issue. Any driver that assumes processes will be
> frozen during suspend to RAM is broken now, not the future.

The converse is also true, though. Any process that assumes processes
aren't frozen during suspend to RAM is also broken now, and will be
while we allow the possibility of suspending to ram after writing a
hibernation image.

In short, drivers should be designed to work whether processes are
frozen or not.

Regards,

Nigel
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