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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:49:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] floppy: suspend/resume fix Hi! > > > > Suspending with mounted floppy is a user error. > > > > > > Huh? How so? > > > > Floppy is removable, and you are expected to umount removable devices > > before suspend. > > That seems pretty crude. There are lots of cases where an apparently > removable device is/should be preserved properly and left mounted (eg > builtin CF). > > We really want to be smarter than that - which means the drivers ought to > be doing stuff in their suspend/resume paths to figure out if the media > changed when really possible (eg IDE removable) > > Floppy is probably not too fixable, but calling it a "user error" is > insulting - user expectation is reasonable that suspend/resume should > just work. The implementation is just rather trickier/nonsensical in this > case. Yep, it would be nice to do something about that; but I'm not sure how this "was media changed" should be implemented, and if it should be done in kernel or in userland. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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