Re: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 12:01:22 EST




On Wed, 30 May 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> Very true. And I think the right order should be to make the midlayers do
> this and then remove the freezer from the STR code path, not the other way
> around. :-)

Yes. After all, STR simply shouldn't _care_.

The rule should be that in a well-written setup, STR "just works" whether
user processes are suspended or not. In other words, the whole freezing
part isn't about STR. It should be totally immaterial.

(Of course, that assumes that the freezing is _sane_, of course: ie the
core kernel threads shouldn't all be frozen. I think Rafael's patch to
turn the defaults around are a big step in the right direction).

Linus
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