Re: peculiar suspend/resume bug.

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:37:28PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:

> cpufreq-applet crashes as soon as the cpu goes offline.
> Now, the applet should be written to deal with this scenario more
> gracefully, but I'm questioning whether or not userspace should
> *see* the unplug/replug that suspend does at all.

As Nigel mentioned, cpu unplug happens just before processes are frozen, 
so I guess there's a chance for it to be scheduled. On the other hand, 
it's not unreasonable for CPUs to be unplugged during runtime anyway - 
perhaps userspace should be able to deal with that?

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