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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling
	during	suspend/resume
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:21:54 +1000
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> That may be enough for whatever you had in mind (adding notification of =

> each phase seems to be a bit overkill).

Maybe... I was also thinking that to avoid a whole bunch of problems, we
could make get_free_pages() silently add GFP_NOIO to GFP_KERNEL after we
have started suspending devices.

Early notification (what I call prepare() and finish()) is useful is the
driver need to actively talk to userland, or preload things like
firmwares, etc... though.

Ben.