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Message-Id: <1183675095.3388.72.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:38:15 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, paulus@...ba.org,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, johannes@...solutions.net, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pavel@....cz, mjg59@...f.ucam.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to
	RAM pathway


> There is that.
> 
> OK, bite the bullet. Tasks involved in fuse are special. Give them a flag
> and teach the freezer to put them on ice only after all other task are
> frozen. In a way they are kernel, there's no use denying that.

Yet another ugly hack to work around the fact that the freezer cannot
work reliably ... yuck

Why not spend that energy fixing drivers to properly block requests
instead ?

Ben.

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