Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Dropping CONFIG_PM_DISK?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh_at_kernel.crashing.org)
Date: 03/01/04
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To: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:10:22 +1100
> Appreciated, suspending a driver like sending XOFF to a tty is ideal,
> but not neccessary for _most_ drivers (software suspend) purpose.
>
> Wrt IDE, in practice all processes get frozen well before
> suspending drivers. Tested and no issues were ever reported with 2.4.
It is still fragile. I have seen IDE requests slipping in anyway.
But IDE isn't a problem, I wrote a working PM implementation for
IDE in 2.6.
> > Moving to the new model is easy. I don't see why we should have had
> > such a "compatibility" path on a major kernel version, that makes
> > no sense, just help fixing the drivers that need more fixing instead.
>
> What for write new drivers for (fast obsoleting) hardware?.
Ok, you are at troll, no need to argue more.
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