Re: + rework-pm_ops-pm_disk_mode-kill-misuse.patch added to -mm tree

Vitaly Wool
2007-03-22T14:27:16Z

On 3/22/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Cool, imagine your MP3 player suspending over network... Or suspending
> > to SD card and switching off in the middle of the process leaving the
> > SD card filesystem broken. Congratulations, you've bought a nice
> > device...
>
> Then why did you ask it to suspend, and why did its manufacturer
> enable SOFTWARE_SUSPEND?

Well, the suspend for instance might mean suspend to SRAM, turn clocks
off, put RAM into self-refresh and so on... Sounds familiar?

> Unix lets you shoot yourself into the foot. If you do not like that,
> go use something else.

May I ask you to avoid such generalizations? Thanks!

Vitaly