linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

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Message-Id: <200707031456.36027.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:56:35 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 06:29, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Suspend to RAM on a machine with / on a fuse filesystem turns out to be 
> a screaming nightmare - either the suspend fails because syslog (for 
> instance) can't be frozen, or the machine deadlocks for some other 
> reason I haven't tracked down. We could "fix" fuse, or alternatively we 
> could do what we do for suspend to RAM on other platforms (PPC and APM) 
> and just not use the freezer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>

Could you please rediff against the current -mm tree?

There are some patches in there that this will clash with.

I still think that this is a mistake, BTW.  Please see the Alan's post at

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2007-June/012847.html

Greetings,
Rafael


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