Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend

Matthew Garrett
2007-05-27T20:49:56Z

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
>
> Use a hibernation and suspend notifier to disable the firmware requesting
> mechanism before a hibernation/suspend and enable it after the operation.

This avoids the problem of .resume methods calling userspace while
userspace is frozen and a resulting hang, but does it actually result in
the drivers beginning to work again? If we remove process freezing in
STR, this should just work[1] without the need to complicate things. On
the other hand, if we don't want to support these functions in the
suspend and resume methods we could just audit the kernel and remove
them all.

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