Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 07:30:36 EST


Hi!

> > That's where I started: whole "suspend to disk" thing actually has _more_
> > to do with "shutdown" than with "suspend".
>
> From looking at pm_ops which I was recently working with a lot, it seems
> that it was designed by somebody who was reading the ACPI documentation
> and was otherwise pretty clueless, even at that level std tries to look
> like suspend. IMHO that is one of the first things that should be ripped
> out, no pm_ops for STD, it's a pain to work with.

That code goes back to Patrick, AFAICT. (And yes, ACPI S3 and ACPI S4
low-level enter is pretty similar).

Patches would be welcome, as would be "suspend-to-ram maintainer".
Pavel
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