Re: [PATCH] PM: invoke suspend notifications after console switch

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On Friday, 11 of January 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2008-01-10 14:14:36, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 02:09 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > A subsequent patch will enable apm-emulation notification for suspends
> > > triggered in any way by using the suspend notifications. This causes
> > > the system to lock up between X being needed to switch away from the
> > > VT and X already waiting for resume in the apm ioctl.
> > > 
> > > This patch moves the console switch (if enabled) before the suspend
> > > notification (and after the resume notification) to avoid this issue.
> > 
> > I don't see this in the suspend git tree yet, anything wrong with it?
> 
> Its pretty intrusive I'd say. And it is wrong; we'd prefer userspace
> to know what we are doing; if they are told we are suspending,
> userspace may be able to do something more clever than long console
> switch.
> 
> I'd prefer this not to go into mainline.

Well, in uswsusp we do the console switch before the suspend notifiers
(although from the user land).

Rafael
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