Re: [patch 3/4 2.6.23-rc2 + mm2-git-mmc] MMC core learns about SPI

[Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2007, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>>>> Is this really a problem that plagues you, or just something you
>>>> noticed in the code? 
>>> It is that we need to suspend as soon as possible because of power loss.
>>> Waiting to flush all the caches does not help, because there will not be
>>> enough time with backup power. So it's better not to start any new block
>>> requests to safe as much backup power as possible and to avoid
>>> interrupted block transfer.
>> Ah, that is a very good point. Could I bother you with having a look at how
>> other parts of the kernel does things? 
> 
> That'll be interesting to know ... but I think the "panic suspend"
> should probably have different code paths than "normal suspend".

I completely agree.

The thing with having a look at other parts of the kernel in this matter
is that we do not use the latest kernel because of corporate policy
unfortunately. So I need to backport useful things to 2.6.17 kernel:-(

Best regards,
Jan

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