On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 19:12 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi. > > > > Could you please send PMSG_* related patches to linux-pm at > > lists.osdl.org as well? > > I'll try. My goal was not to add or change not functionality but to > make what the kernel was already doing be consistent. > > It turns out the device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) is a major pain > sitting in the reboot path and I will be submitting a patch to > remove it from the reboot path in 2.6.13 completely. > > At the very least the ide driver breaks, and the e1000 driver > is affected. > > And there is of course the puzzle of why there exists simultaneously > driver shutdown() and suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) methods as I believed they > are defined to do exactly the same thing. I would expect more driver breakage and for the shutdown either. In current stage, suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) might put devices into D3 state. How can a shutdown() be done again? Thanks, Shaohua
