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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc3
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:07:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102219637.18809.0.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412041903.55583.david-b@pacbell.net>


> Why was that changed?  Are you sure it's not just a bug higher up
> in the call stack?  Classically(*), both suspend() and resume()
> methods are called in contexts that can sleep, so that's a big
> change I'd expect to impact other drivers too.  In fact that'd
> explain a lot of other messages I saw reported on the list...

Yes, lots of drivers are expected to be able to schedule in suspend and
resume requests. If that was broken upstream, then this is a big BUG.

> - Dave
> 
> (*) Since APM days if not before.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-05  4:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05  3:03 Linux 2.6.10-rc3 David Brownell
2004-12-05  4:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-12-05 12:14 ` Russell King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-04  0:19 Linus Torvalds
2004-12-04  9:06 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2004-12-04 17:06   ` Alex Romosan
2004-12-04 17:24     ` Ari Pollak
2004-12-04 17:40       ` Alex Romosan
2004-12-04 19:21         ` Ari Pollak
2004-12-04 21:17         ` Martin Josefsson
2004-12-04 21:37           ` Alex Romosan
2004-12-04 21:42             ` Martin Josefsson
2004-12-04 23:48               ` Paul Ionescu
2004-12-04 21:47         ` Giridhar Pemmasani

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