On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:19:27AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 23 of February 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Saturday, 23 of February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:53:11AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > > > The appended patch fixes the issue with the new code for suspending/resuming > > > > devices, related to the fact that some device drivers and CPU hotplug notifiers > > > > unregister device objects while suspend is in progress, which leads to > > > > deadlocks. > > > > > > > > Please consider taking it for 2.6.25. > > Ouch, please disregard this patch. > > Alan rightfully noticed that it may confuse subsystems assuming that after > device_unregister() has returned, the driver's ->release() method has run. > > Unfortunately, he did that in a Bugzilla comment that has never reached > my mailbox (strangely enough, I haven't been receiving any messages from > the Bugzilla for the last two days or so). > > Sorry for the trouble. No problem at all. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
