From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752494AbXGIKC1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 06:02:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755382AbXGIKCP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 06:02:15 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:45911 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755379AbXGIKCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 06:02:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:02:04 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Alan Stern , Kyle Moffett , Nigel Cunningham , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway Message-ID: <20070709100204.GN5401@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1183929611.3388.303.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200707090847.43378.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200707090847.43378.oliver@neukum.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run.  Think of a printer > > > daemon, for example.  It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep. > > > > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print ...filesystems are offline, too, when the machine is asleep. Yet, unmounting everything on suspend would not result in useful suspend support. Yes, I believe we should be transparent. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html