Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-04T15:10:07Z

On Wednesday, 4 July 2007 17:03, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 schrieb Miklos Szeredi:
> > > > And we won't know if drivers are OK until we remove the freezer,
> > > > catch-22.
> > >
> > > I disagree.  We can learn that by auditing the drivers.
> >
> > In theory, yes.  But it scales far worse than letting everyone
> > experiment/report/fix problems as they crop up.
>
> You will open many but small races. This would be very painfull
> to debug.

Agreed.

They will not trigger 100% of the time, but sporadically and generally at
random.

At least the freezer problems are reproducible. ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael

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