Hi! > > Why? We are saving state to memory, we should not need any other > > devices to do that. > > Hell no, we're not. ? > > Well, for devices that are so complex that userspace support is > > needed... yes, you are right, separate pass would be > > needed. Fortunately, such devices are not too common. > > "Not too common"? > > Having a graphical console is a hell of a lot more common than just about > any other device I can imagine, with the possible exception of USB these > days. Okay, but graphical console means X these days, and -- being userspace -- needs special casing, anyway. For fbcon, etc, no, we do not any other devices, so it actually works okay. > In fact, done right, if you know the machine powers off, the final suspend > should literally not be needed. "Remove power globally" is actually a very > good suspend/shutdown mechanism that doesn't even need any driver support ;) Actually, that's bad idea; some machines are unable to power down with devices still running. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
