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

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. ÂThink of a printer 
> > daemon, for example. ÂIt shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O 
> > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep.
> 
> Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print

Not necessarily. The machine must survive going to sleep while you are
printing. Any other error return than -ERESTARTSYS is not an option.
We can't simply change the ABI.

	Regards
		Oliver

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