Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

Pavel Machek
2007-10-17T13:12:24Z

On Fri 2007-09-21 10:06:15, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:51 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds writes:
> >
> > > It would indeed be nice if we could just take CPU's down early (while
> > > everything is working), and run the whole suspend code with just one CPU,
> > > rather than having to worry about the ordering between CPU and device
> > > takedown.
> >
> > That is certainly what we want to do on powerpc.
>
> I would have expected that we do it exactly this way and it took me by
> surprise, that we do not.

Well, we used to do that, but acpi spec forbids that, and it means
userspace sees plugs/unplugs.
Pavel
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