From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BPATCH_2/2=5D_Fix_console_handling_du?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ring=09suspend/resume?= Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:53:08 +1000 Message-ID: <200606161253.14627.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> References: <1150421516.7725.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0685873670==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1150421516.7725.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org Cc: David Brownell , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Machek List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org --===============0685873670== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2300311.TmgbEm0Mb3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart2300311.TmgbEm0Mb3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Friday 16 June 2006 11:31, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Why are people being dense and stupid? I told you in the very first > > explanation that the IO state isn't suspended by "save_state()". > > > > "save_state()" would not disable the device. It would not disable the > > queues. The device would remain usable, and 100% functional. > > But what is the point ? What is the relevance of a state saved if it can > be made invalid right away by processing of IOs ? I can save state at > any time and suspend 2 hours later, how relevant that state is ? Why not > save the state at boot and re-use it later ? Doesn't make sense to me :) That would be right for some drivers, but not for all (scsi request ids, eg= ).=20 The knowledge of what to do needs to be in the driver. Regards, Nigel =2D-=20 Nigel, Michelle and Alisdair Cunningham 5 Mitchell Street Cobden 3266 Victoria, Australia --nextPart2300311.TmgbEm0Mb3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEkh0aN0y+n1M3mo0RAnhFAJwIJK38Sw+Cgf+vI+6ztefR600jigCfR61W GaoJS762u7zYXkBcYT/etlI= =acHo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2300311.TmgbEm0Mb3-- --===============0685873670== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --===============0685873670==--