RE: [PATCH] Input: hyperv-keyboard: Add the support of hibernation

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> From: dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 10:46 AM
> >
> > I think I understood now: it looks the vmbus driver should implement
> > a prepare() or freeze(), which calls the hyperv_keyboard driver's
> > prepare() or freeze(), which can set the flag or disable the keyboard
> > event handling. This way we don't need the notifier.
> 
> Right. I think in practice the current suspend implementation can work
> as freeze() for the HV keyboard, because in suspend you shut off vmbus
> channel, so there should not be wakeup signals anymore. What you do not
> want is to have the current resume to be used in place of thaw(), as
> there you re-enable the vmbus channel and resume sending wakeup requests
> as you are writing out the hibernation image to storage.
> 
> I think if vmbus allowed HV keyboard driver to supply empty thaw() and
> poweroff() implementations, while using suspend() as freeze() and
> resume() as restore(), it would solve the issue for you.
> 
> Dmitry

Exactly. I'll have to fix vmbus first, then post a v2 for this patch.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan




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