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Message-ID: <20070429085937.GD1900@elf.ucw.cz> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:59:37 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> Subject: Re: Back to the future. Hi! > > Ie we do have history of _not_ freezing things. The freezing came later, > > and came with the subsystem that had more problems.. > > It doesn't have that many problems as you are trying to suggest. At present, > the only problems with it happen if someone tries to "improve" it in the way > I did with the workqueues. > > Anyway, the freezing of tasks, including kernel threads, is one of the few > things on which Pavel, Nigel and me completely agree that they should be done, > so perhaps you could accept that? Actually, if we want to support OLPC _nicely_, we'll need to get rid of freezer from suspend-to-RAM. Of course, that _will_ put more pressure at the drivers -- and break few of them... 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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