linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] suspend patches for 2.6.25-rc0

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Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:14:40 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] suspend patches for 2.6.25-rc0

On Thursday, 7 of February 2008, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:20:56PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> > please pull from: 
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git suspend
> > 
> > This will update the files shown below.
> 
> The following patch,
> 
>     commit c3e94d899c864e558f938f9845ddb8c2e5d5ccd0
>     Author: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
>     Date:   Mon Nov 19 23:38:25 2007 +0100
> 
>     Hibernation: Add PM_RESTORE_PREPARE and PM_POST_RESTORE notifiers (rev. 2)
> 
> Seems to have reverted some code related to the PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE
> notifiers in kernel/power/user.c that were added in 2.6.23 by the
> following patch,
> 
>     commit b10d911749d37dccfa5873d2088aea3f074b9e45
>     Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
>     Date:   Thu Jul 19 01:47:36 2007 -0700
> 
>     PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiers
> 
> I'm pretty sure this was not the intent of the new patch because it only
> tries to extend upon the former functionality and not replace it.

I haven't revert the changes.  It's only moved the notifier chain calls from
the ioctls to open/release in user.c .

Thanks,
Rafael
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