linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] Enhance process freezer interface for usage beyond software suspend

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Message-ID: <20070409030459.GC30109@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:34:59 +0530
From:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	paulmck@...ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vatsa@...ibm.com,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, mingo@...e.hu,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, dino@...ibm.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Enhance process freezer interface for usage beyond software suspend

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:51:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > 
> > > Should we create CONFIG_FREEZER?
> > 
> > Why do you think so?  I think the freezer should be compiled automatically
> > if any of the above is set, which is what this directive really means.
> 
> Kconfig can do that. ("select statement"). If we have one such ifdef,
> it is okay, but if it would be more of them.
> 

Ok.

> > > Eh? Why does kprobes code depend on config_pm?
> > 
> > Because it uses the freezer? ;-)
> 
> That is no longer true after this patch... Ugly ifdef above makes sure
> freezer is there for kprobes. I'm trying to say that #if above is
> now broken. Actually it was probably always broken, but it just became
> more so.

I have already removed it from in my version 3.

Thanks and Regards
gautham.
-- 
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
"Freedom comes with a price tag of responsibility, which is still a bargain,
because Freedom is priceless!"
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