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Message-ID: <4740992D.9030906@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:57:33 +0100
From: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@...il.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC: linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: apm emulation driver broken ?
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 of November 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
>> ok so now we agreed on this point, can we assert that a user
>> land thread waiting for an event in an UNINTERRUPTIBLE state
>> will prevent a suspend to happen ?
>
> Yes.
>
So this driver seems really broken and actually I'm wondering if
it's used by anyone...
See the call to wait_even() made by apm_ioctl(). If any processes
run this, it will prevent the system to suspend...
And no, I don't know why call wait_event() is called.
Franck
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