Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Jul 03 2007 - 08:13:32 EST


On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:13:53AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Only if you want to audit all character devices' read() and write()
> methods for races against suspend().
> / on fuse is a bad idea.

Any driver that assumes that userspace will be frozen during suspend has
been broken forever. That behaviour has never been guaranteed.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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