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Message-ID: <20070320172023.GA2593@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:20:23 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: "reboot" swsusp mode leaves moon icon blinking

Hi!

> > ...and cause is really simple.
> > 
> > During resume, we do not know that "reboot" method was used, so we
> > assume plaform and make the led blink...
> > 
> > Unfortunately I see no easy solution, and this may/will cause other
> > problems -- in case of broken bios and user telling us not to call
> > that bios, we'll call it anyway.
> > 
> > (Ouch and I think this is regression after 2.6.20?)
> 
> I'm not sure, will check that later.
> 
> The solution would be to pass the information about the suspend mode used
> in the image header, I think (that's what uswsusp does after my recent patch).

Yes, we could do that.

OTOH, we could simply avoid calling the platform code in resume
path. It worked ok for a long while, and it seems to have no
downsides...

									Pavel
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