Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

Alan Stern
2010-05-27T21:26:08Z

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:23:50PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > A wakeup event is defined as one that wakes the system - if a system
> > > can't be woken by a specific event then it's impossible to lose it,
> > > since it wasn't a wakeup event to begin with.
> >
> > So where is the problem ?
>
> The problem is that, right now, if a wakeup event is received between
> the point where userspace decides to start a suspend and userspace
> actually starts a suspend, that event may not abort the suspend.

The two of you are talking at cross purposes. Thomas is referring to
idle-based suspend and Matthew is talking about forced suspend.

Or at least, that's how it appears to me. No wonder you can't agree on
anything.

Alan Stern