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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 10:50:36 +0200 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] suspend: delete sys_sync() On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote: > [The argument that the user can pull removable storage devices out of the > system while suspended doesn't hold any water to me, because the user can > pull them out of the system when not suspended just as well and cause the > same kind of damage to happen.] The user may not notice the difference between a suspended and powered off machine, and thus think it's safe to unplug the USB memory stick while the machine appears off. If that's considered a valid use case, this would be a regression. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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