On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > The entire point, as I explained in another mail, is that "freeze" means > to the driver the excact same thing as "suspend" (that is stop > operations and apply whatever policy is applicable to a suspended driver > of that class, freeze queues for block like IDE does, drop packets for > ethernet, etc... stop DMA engine too etc... so a consistent image can be > saved), but _without_ actually powering anything down. So waking from > this state is both fast, and without any spike. Ok, we're on the same page. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks, Pat
