Re: [PATCH] PM: Acquire device locks on suspend

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 6 of January 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, 6 of January 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> > Still, shouldn't we fail the removal of the device apart from giving the
> > warning?
> 
> We can't.  device_del() can't fail -- it returns void.  Besides, how 
> can a driver hope to deal with an unregistration failure?

Well, right.

Still, our present approach doesn't seem to be correct overall.  For example,
I think we should prevent a suspend from happening while a device is being
removed.

Rafael
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