On Thursday, 13 of March 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at sisk.pl> writes: > > > Yes, it ought to be possible. > > > > Ultimately, IMHO, we should put all devices unnecessary for saving the image > > (and doing some eye-candy work) into low power states before the image is > > created and keep them in low power states until the system is eventually > > powered off. > > Why? I guess I don't see why we care what power state the devices are in. > Especially since we should be able to quickly save the image. > > We need to disconnect the drivers from the hardware yes. So filesystems > still work and applications that do direct hardware access still work > and don't need to reopen their connections. > > I'm leery of low power states as they don't always work, and bringing > low power states seems to confuse hibernation to disk with suspend to > ram.
