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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-07-03T13:02:20Z

On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 14:13, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:13:53AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Only if you want to audit all character devices' read() and write()
> > methods for races against suspend().
> > / on fuse is a bad idea.
>
> Any driver that assumes that userspace will be frozen during suspend has
> been broken forever. That behaviour has never been guaranteed.

Can we please fix those drivers _first_, then?

Rafael

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