On Thursday, October 13, 2011, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:06:02PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > I hate to sound like a broken recorder but the above patch isn't > > > strictly correct for hot-swap cases, right? > > > > hpa is working on a ucode loading solution which will take care of your > > hotswap case too. > > You know, it would be a good idea to take a step back and think about a > broader picture. Suspend and hibernate need to be mutually exclusive > with other things as well. The two examples which people have been > talking about are firmware updates (if the computer goes to sleep > while the firmware is being changed, it ends up as a brick) and battery > recharging (the CPU needs to respond quickly to temperature and charger > events). > > There ought to be a general-purpose "prevent system sleep" mechanism > usable both from within the kernel and from userspace. I have a patch for that ready, will post it later today. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
