From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Shawn Starr <shawnstarr@mobile.rogers.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Call to rewrite swsusp
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:39:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021107173948.GB773@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211041531.gA4FVYWp026000@BlackBerry.NET>
> Talking with some people last night it seems we need to redo the
> swsusp (driver). From what I've been told and have seen (from the
> code) it doesn't talk to the generic subsystems (like block layer,
> network layer etc). From talks with some kernel developers, they
> tell me we would have to modify all the drivers to properly handle
> system suspends. Is it not APM/ACPI's job to bring down the system
> to a stable state when suspending the machine?
> The swsusp should be asking all the generic subsystems. When the
> machine is about to be suspended it should flush any read/write
> buffers, stop processing packets and other things.
> Am I totally wrong on this? :-)
Yes.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-10 11:41 UTC|newest]
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2002-11-04 15:31 Shawn Starr
2002-11-07 17:39 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-11-04 15:39 Shawn Starr
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