linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 5/5] b43: Avoid unregistering device objects during suspend

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0801250955210.4190-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:58:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...vis.unipv.it>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/5] b43: Avoid unregistering device objects during
 suspend

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Maybe we should have global suspend_in_progress (or maybe system_state
> == suspending?) and automatically switch to schedule_removal() while
> it is set?

:-)  There was a time a couple of years ago when you objected violently 
to the mere suggestion of such a global variable!

It's not a bad idea IMO.  But if it does get implemented, a global
function would be better than a global variable.  It would provide
more encapsulation.

Alan Stern

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