Re: Async suspend-resume patch w/ completions (was: Re: Async suspend-resume patch w/ rwsems)

Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-20T02:45:09Z

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:53:45AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday 20 December 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > If it isn't, don't do that then. But we actually have no real
> > reason to believe that it would be problematic, at least on a PC where the
> > actual logic is on the SB (presumably behind the LPC controller).
> >
> > Why would it be?
>
> The embedded controller may depend on it.
>

No, not really depend but rather wierd things may happen if you
accessing both. Witness regressions where touching embedded controller
makes us lose data from touchpad, I think you are CCed on that bug.

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Dmitry