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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: peculiar suspend/resume bug.
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:53:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816035351.GB17481@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060816024140.GA30814@srcf.ucam.org>

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:41:40AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
 > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:37:28PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > cpufreq-applet crashes as soon as the cpu goes offline.
 > > Now, the applet should be written to deal with this scenario more
 > > gracefully, but I'm questioning whether or not userspace should
 > > *see* the unplug/replug that suspend does at all.
 > 
 > As Nigel mentioned, cpu unplug happens just before processes are frozen, 
 > so I guess there's a chance for it to be scheduled. On the other hand, 
 > it's not unreasonable for CPUs to be unplugged during runtime anyway - 
 > perhaps userspace should be able to deal with that?

Sure, I'm not debating that point. It's a bug in the applet that needs fixing,
but it also seems that we could be saving a whole lot of pain by
hiding this from userspace at suspend/resume time.

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-15 22:10 peculiar suspend/resume bug Dave Jones
2006-08-16  0:19 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-08-16  0:37   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-16  1:05     ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-08-16  2:41     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-08-16  3:53       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-08-16  8:54         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-17  1:44       ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-08-17  5:44         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-17  5:55           ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-08-17  6:30             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-16 22:06 ` Pavel Machek

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