On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:37PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > But that's fine - "Are we undergoing a systemwide suspend" is an easy > > question to ask. Freezing processes instead means that most of those > > paths will never be tested. > > The question is easy to ask, but it's not so easy to figure out what > you should do if the answer is Yes. Freezing processes instead means > that those "untested" paths -- in many, many drivers -- won't have to > exist at all. We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're using goes away - NFS has done it forever. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
