On Thursday, 6 of March 2008, Alan Stern wrote: > 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. Yeah. > > > 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!) I'm going to send this patch and the "include dpm_sysfs_add() into device_pm_add()" patch for -mm/linux-next testing, if you don't mind. I'm working on a new version of the "PM: Separate suspend and hibernation callbacks" patch, on top of the two. Thanks, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
