From: Taral <taral@taral.net>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochelp@infinity.powertie.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:08:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011018110826.A22339@taral.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110171617460.15653-100000@marty.infinity.powertie.org>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:52:29PM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> When a suspend transition is triggered, the device tree is walked first to
> save the state of all the devices in the system. Once this is complete, the
> saved state, now residing in memory, can be written to some non-volatile
> location, like a disk partition or network location.
>
> The device tree is then walked again to suspend all of the devices. This
> guarantees that the device controlling the location to write the state is
> still powered on while you have a snapshot of the system state.
Aha! A much nicer solution to the problem the ACPI people are having
with suspend/resume (ordering problems).
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Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-17 23:52 [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5 Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 6:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-18 12:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-18 16:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 17:38 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-18 22:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-19 17:09 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-18 22:10 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-19 18:26 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-19 19:02 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-19 19:21 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-19 20:07 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-19 20:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-19 22:25 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-20 13:47 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-20 1:41 ` john slee
2001-10-20 13:52 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-22 11:02 ` Padraig Brady
2001-10-27 11:01 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-10-19 7:57 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-19 8:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-19 8:31 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-19 8:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-19 18:50 ` Tim Jansen
2001-10-19 15:21 ` Taral
2001-10-19 23:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-19 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-18 15:17 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 16:08 ` Taral [this message]
2001-10-18 16:52 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-18 17:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 17:41 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 18:28 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-18 19:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-18 21:32 ` John Alvord
2001-10-18 22:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-18 22:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-18 22:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-18 23:30 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-18 23:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-18 23:52 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <3BCF3941.D4B79FE1@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-10-19 17:12 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-18 17:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
2001-10-18 17:33 ` Patrick Mochel
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2001-10-19 17:01 Kevin Easton
2001-10-19 18:40 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-19 21:43 Grover, Andrew
2001-10-19 23:33 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-20 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-20 9:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-21 17:09 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-23 0:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-23 0:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 0:29 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-23 7:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 15:10 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-23 15:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-23 20:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-23 20:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 0:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-24 9:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 10:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-24 10:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 13:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-24 13:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 16:36 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-10-24 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 16:46 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-10-24 16:54 ` Patrick Mochel
2001-10-24 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 22:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 17:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-24 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25 7:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 12:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 14:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 8:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 8:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 12:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 21:47 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-24 22:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 4:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 21:52 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-10-25 23:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 23:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-26 11:35 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-26 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-25 8:27 ` Rob Turk
2001-10-25 10:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 10:02 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-25 14:20 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-10-25 14:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-25 14:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-25 15:22 ` Rob Turk
2001-10-25 15:44 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-25 16:26 ` David Lang
2001-10-25 21:59 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-25 21:32 ` Rob Turk
2001-10-24 17:01 ` Mike Anderson
2001-10-25 9:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-25 9:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25 9:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-25 10:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-25 10:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 15:18 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-24 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-24 15:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-24 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-23 9:44 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-23 11:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-23 11:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-23 10:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-24 17:56 Grover, Andrew
2001-10-24 18:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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