On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Not only that. I'd like to simplify the design, because IMO using one async > domain would be much more straightforward than using multiple ones. > If I understand the async framework correctly, the domains are only used for > synchronization, ie. if you want to wait for a group of async operations to > complete, you can put them all into one domain and then call > async_synchronize_full_domain() to wait for them all together. > > You don't need multiple domains to run multiple things in parallel. There's a basic confusion going on here. Rui is using "async domain" to mean a collection of devices which will be suspended or resumed serially. Different domains run in parallel. Rafael is using "async domain" to mean a collection of devices which will be suspended or resumed in parallel. Different domains run serially. Once that is cleared up, you should be able to communicate a little better... :-) Alan Stern -- 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
