From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: + rework-pm_ops-pm_disk_mode-kill-misuse.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:03:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070322140305.GC7693@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acd2a5930703220641p6bd02f5dk433232093a331772@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu 2007-03-22 16:41:40, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >> > No, once SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is configured there's *no way* to disable it
> >> > after the fact via pm_ops. Read valid_state() in kernel/power/main.c.
> >>
> >> So how does a platform with only flash (and an insufficient amount of
> >> flash at that) tell the suspend code that suspend-to-disk is not
> >> supported?
> >
> >Hohum, perhaps it can suspend to SD card? Or perhaps it can suspend
> >over network?
>
> Cool, imagine your MP3 player suspending over network... Or suspending
> to SD card and switching off in the middle of the process leaving the
> SD card filesystem broken. Congratulations, you've bought a nice
> device...
Then why did you ask it to suspend, and why did its manufacturer
enable SOFTWARE_SUSPEND?
Unix lets you shoot yourself into the foot. If you do not like that,
go use something else.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-21 23:34 + rework-pm_ops-pm_disk_mode-kill-misuse.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2007-03-22 9:48 ` Russell King
2007-03-22 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22 10:03 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 10:08 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-22 13:26 ` Russell King
2007-03-22 13:31 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 13:41 ` Vitaly Wool
2007-03-22 14:03 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-03-22 14:27 ` Vitaly Wool
2007-03-22 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 15:23 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-22 15:26 ` Vitaly Wool
2007-03-22 14:24 ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-22 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-22 14:35 ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-22 17:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22 17:51 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-22 15:05 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-22 15:23 ` Vitaly Wool
2007-03-22 15:28 ` Johannes Berg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-22 18:00 akpm
2007-04-27 22:11 ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-27 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-28 6:40 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-22 18:00 akpm
2007-03-21 23:34 akpm
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