On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 18:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Linus, You are contradicting yourself a bit I think... On one mailed, > > you agreed that suspend() would happen in a "live" systems with no > > quiescing of subsystems and now you say drivers shouldn't bother > > Right. > > SUSPEND. > > Not SNAPSHOT. > > The real STR shouldn't actually need to quiesce anything. > > But STD isn't suspend. And it damn well needs to quiesce things. > > As long as you think of STD as suspend, you're never going to get > _anywhere_. It's not. It has never been. And it never will be. Ok, ok... just read my other mail then and pls answer to my objection about save_state() vs. suspend() :) That is, my worry about the state actually changing between those 2 calls and restoring the wrong one, essentially, what is the precise definition of "state". Ben.
