Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

Alan Stern
2010-05-27T17:36:13Z

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Crap. Stop beating on those lost wakeup events. If we lose them then
> the drivers are broken and do not handle the switch over correctly. Or
> the suspend mechanism is broken as it does not evaluate the system
> state correctly. Blockers are just papering over that w/o tackling the
> real problem.

That's the point -- suspend does not evaluate the system state
correctly because it doesn't have the necessary information. Suspend
blockers are a way of providing it that information. They don't paper
over the problem; they solve it.

Alan Stern