[linux-pm] PM models

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Hi!

> > > What we need for APM is freeze.
> > 
> > OK, then so far as I'm concerned there's no longer
> > any question about _needing_ "freeze".
> > 
> > Should that just be a new suspend_state_t value
> 
> Hrm... not sure what we ever called suspend_state_t ... I need to dig
> Pavel proposals.
> 
> The fact that all suspend() callbacks imply freeze, which is a drivers
> state, makes me think that freeze is just what ... suspend() means. That
> is, we can get rid of the "freeze" semantic altogether if we consider
> that the pm_message contains a suggested "abstract" power state. suspend
> with state "on" would mean freeze.

As I said, I do not agree here. "Prepare to halt" does not need to
stop DMAs, for example.
								Pavel
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