Re: [PATCH -mm 5/5] b43: Avoid unregistering device objects during suspend

[Michael Buesch]

On Friday 25 January 2008 08:47:46 Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2008-01-25 01:37:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Modify the b43 driver to avoid deadlocking suspend and resume,
> > which happens as a result of attempting to unregister device objects
> > locked by the PM core during suspend/resume cycles.  Also, make it
> > use a suspend-safe method of unregistering device object in the
> > resume error path.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Maybe we should have global suspend_in_progress (or maybe system_state
> == suspending?) and automatically switch to schedule_removal() while
> it is set?
> 

That would be great, from my perspective :)

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Greetings Michael.
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