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From: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2:
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Pavel Machek wrote:

> STD needs to snapshot system, and then it needs devices to be
> suspended so that snapshot is consistent.


One question though, there are devices that can be suspended (broken
suspend) and restore in such a case wouldn't work at all. The only
possible way would be then to reinitialize the device instead of restore ?

Manu