On Friday, July 29, 2011, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2011, 23:09:44 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Friday, July 29, 2011, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2011, 22:27:54 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > > However, there's another problem I didn't think of before. Namely, > > > > we cannot thaw tasks before resuming devices in case we've already > > > > suspended them, because that will defeat the very purpose of the > > > > freezing in the first place. > > > > > > That purpose is already defeated. The machine cannot be deader than dead. > > > > OK, so what exactly is the purpose of the thawing, then? > > We may be lucky enough to get the oops written out to disk. The oops may happen > in a driver rarely used and be late in the sequence. OK, so is there any guarantee that we won't corrupt things this way? Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
