Re: RFC: additional event for pm_notifier

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On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 26 March 2010, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> > >
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > i've got that working, but after some more thinking
> > > i really didn't like that approach - in short, if we do that,
> > > hibernation on s390 will allways be bound to the plattform mode
> > > (with certain devices we will crash in our restore callbacks
> > > if we haven't previously enabled the hw-feature, which those
> > > devices use)
> > > 
> > > and to the your-gun-your-foot argument - if someone tests
> > > hibernation on s390 using the reboot mode he sure cannot
> > > expect the potential panic, depending on the involved devices
> > 
> > Well, on x86 using ACPI the reboot and shutdown modes only work by fortunate
> > conincidence, so to speak (if at all).
> > 
> > That said, your argument is reasonable.
> > 
> > > do you absolutely oppose against the idea of a new notifier event?
> > 
> > Yes, I do.  To the extent that I'd rather change the entire design so that the
> > "hibernation modes" would be platform-dependent.
> 
> ok. i implemented a hook in arch/s390

Thanks a lot.

Rafael
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