Re: [pm] fix time after suspend-to-*

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> The request can be on the wall clock or on clock_monotonic.  Still, we went 
> round and round about how a tick on one should be a tick on the other.  My 
> understanding is that the pm_timer was put in the ACPIC to handle this, but 
> then I don't know how far down power is going, nor for how long.  I would 
> think at some point the discontinuity would be large enough that one would 
> want some user service to run and "fix" all the broken time assumptions.  
> Some sort of a soft reboot that would kick the ntp code, cron and so on, 
> much as is done at boot.

Well, it is well possible that discontinuity is days (it usually is 8
hours for me -- I suspend-to-disk before going to sleep), and nothing
prevents you from suspending machine for half a year.

								Pavel

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