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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] swsusp: do not use pm_ops (was: Re:
	suspend2 merge (was: Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy))
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:33:46 -0700
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Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Thursday 03 May 2007, Alan Stern wrote:

> First, as mentioned before this issue exists on only a small number of
> systems.  Second, I have submitted to Greg KH a couple of patches to
> maintain persistence of USB devices even when the power sessions are lost
> (they're still in his queue so you can't try them out yet).  This feature
> violates the USB spec and it is potentially dangerous -- users could
> easily lose data

... which is why I don't like having it as any kind of option.