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

Oliver Neukum
2007-07-09T06:48:05Z

Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run.  Think of a printer
> > daemon, for example.  It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O
> > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep.
>
> Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print

Not necessarily. The machine must survive going to sleep while you are
printing. Any other error return than -ERESTARTSYS is not an option.
We can't simply change the ABI.

Regards
Oliver