On Friday, 3 of October 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:10:37 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hibernation: Introduce new system state for the last phase of hibernation > > > > Replace unused SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK with a new system_state value > > SYSTEM_HIBERNATE_ENTER that can be used by device drivers to check if > > the system is in the last phase of hibernation. > > Violent objections. > > We just don't know what this change will do. It potentially affects > every code site in the kernel which looks at system_state. Do you mean anyone checking 'system_state != SOMETHING' ? Oh well. > We've had problems in the past with this thing and the more complex we make it, > the worse any future problems will be. It's Just Bad. > > Can we just create a new global? > > extern bool system_entering_hibernation_or_whatever; Yes, we can, but what about: extern bool system_entering_hibernation(void); that will become a static inline in case of !CONFIG_HIBERNATION, and using a static variable? -- 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