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

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Message-ID: <20070709100204.GN5401@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:02:04 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

Hi!

> > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run.  Think of a printer 
> > > daemon, for example.  It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O 
> > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep.
> > 
> > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print

...filesystems are offline, too, when the machine is asleep. Yet,
unmounting everything on suspend would not result in useful suspend
support.

Yes, I believe we should be transparent.
								Pavel
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