Re: [ACPI] Re: S4bios support for 2.5.63

Ducrot Bruno
2003-03-03T14:37:43Z

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:09:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 00:39, Roger Luethi wrote:
> > The only thing that came up at the time was a suggestion to replace BUG_ON
> > with while (which I didn't try because I'd like to keep my data).
>
> That isnt far off what you want. IDE has proper command queuing functionality and
> providing you are suspending in a sleeping context you can do what you are trying
> to do through the IDE layer politely. Take a look at how the various ide taskfile
> ioctls issue commands.
>

the problem is that the suspend/resume code bypass the this kind of
stuff imho.

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