Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:36:39 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway |
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:20, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're > > using goes away - NFS has done it forever. > > Now, please tell me how many driver writers even thought that something > might try to access their devices after .suspend() had been executed (or > even whilie it was being executed)?
Every single driver that fails under those conditions is already broken, and has been forever. It's likely that they're broken under run-time suspend, too.
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