On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:47 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. Think of a printer > > > daemon, for example. It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep. > > > > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print > > Not necessarily. The machine must survive going to sleep while you are > printing. Any other error return than -ERESTARTSYS is not an option. > We can't simply change the ABI. Ugh ? Why returning an error from the printer driver to the userland print server/daemon would prevent the machine from "surviving" ? I would be happy with -EIO personally :-) Ben. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
