swsusp & modules [was Re: [linux-pm] [Fwd: Re: PM messages]]

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Hi!

> > That's actually another reason why it'd be good to differentiate between
> > 'stopping' a device and 'powering it down'. We can temporarily freeze the
> > video device, save it's state, then re-enable it to continue writing to
> > the screen. Ditto for the swap device.
> 
> Well, whatever you do, you don't do it by breaking the transition into
> different steps. That won't work.
> 
> You enter a state, you always go back to state 0 (resumed) before
> entering another one. Period. That's the basis of why I got save_state()
> removed in the first place, remember ?
> 
> Just read the paper David did summarizing our discussions, I think it's
> pretty clear the kind of callbacks we need.

We really should put it somewhere in Documentation/ so this kind of
discussion does not repeat...
								Pavel
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