From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760521AbXGCMNb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:13:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758407AbXGCMNY (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:13:24 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:37393 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757960AbXGCMNX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:13:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:13:13 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Oliver Neukum Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Message-ID: <20070703121313.GA21318@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20070703042916.GA17240@srcf.ucam.org> <200707030813.53481.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707030813.53481.oliver@neukum.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org