On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Well, can it happen in practice? If it can, then what way can it happen? > > > > Yes, it can happen in practice when a new module is loaded. In some > > ways, modules' init routines are like probe methods. > > Hmm, I'm not sure if it really is possible to load a module when all devices > have been suspended. Never mind, though. You can load the module before devices are suspended, and then its init routine can run while the suspend is starting. > > To be safe, I think we should make system sleep mutually exclusive with > > module loading. > > Okay, is the (yet another) version of the patch below fine by you? Yes, it's fine. Mutual exclusion with module loading can be added later. (Ironically, it may require putting pm_sleep_rwsem back!) Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
