On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: > > The icebox would still be useful, however, for user tasks that try to > > do I/O after a system-sleep transition has begun. Right now this can't > > happen, thanks to the freezer (except that it _can_ happen on PPC where > > the freezer isn't used for suspend). Once the freezer no longer > > affects user tasks, kernel drivers will have to do _something_ when a > > user task submits an I/O request during a system sleep. That > > "something" will be to go to the icebox. > > Right, ok. I wish I could change powerpc, I've been maintaining a patch > for months now, but Paul seems to be dead set against it. Not only does > that fix these things, but also we get to use the /sys/power/state > API... This is just the start. Nothing will _really_ get fixed until lots of drivers actually begin to use the icebox. Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
