Hi! > I recently worked on a patch to unbind USB drivers that don't have > suspend/resume methods, and then rebind them when the system comes back > up. There was an unexpected effect: In some cases the unbind or rebind > operations caused hotplug events, which started up new user processes at a > time when everything was supposed to be frozen. Obviously this is not a > good thing. > > Is there some other way these sorts of events can be handled? For > instance, can the hotplug system be smart enough to delay creating the new > processes? Or can they be created already in a frozen state? There were some problems with this already... but I do not recall what the solution was. lkml thread, IIRC. Were it PCMCIA cards or something like that? Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp!
