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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] PM / core: skip suspend next time if resume returns an error
Hi!

> In general Linux doesn't behave super great if you get an error while
> executing a device's resume handler. Nothing will come along later
> and and try again to resume the device (and all devices that depend on
> it), so pretty much you're left with a non-functioning device and
> that's not good.
>
> However, even though you'll end up with a non-functioning device we
> still don't consider resume failures to be fatal to the system. We'll
> keep chugging along and just hope that the device that failed to
> resume wasn't too critical. This establishes the precedent that we
> should at least try our best not to fully bork the system after a
> resume failure.
>
> I will argue that the best way to keep the system in the best shape is
> to assume that if a resume callback failed that it did as close to
> no-op as possible. Because of this we should consider the device
> still suspended and shouldn't try to suspend the device again next
> time around. Today that's not what happens. AKA if you have a
> device

I don't think there are many guarantees when device resume fail. It
may have done nothing, and it may have resumed the device almost
fully.

I guess the best option would be to refuse system suspend after some
device failed like that.

That leaves user possibility to debug it...

Pavel--
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