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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:10:08PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:

> No, no -- you have it exactly backwards.  Removing the freezer turns 
> STR into something _less_ like runtime suspend, because it adds the 
> requirement that devices must not automatically be resumed when an I/O 
> request arrives.

But that's fine - "Are we undergoing a systemwide suspend" is an easy 
question to ask. Freezing processes instead means that most of those 
paths will never be tested.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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