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SubjectRe: [PATCH] libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen
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On Sunday, December 15, 2013 08:21:36 AM Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 15/12/13 07:36, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 03:31:21PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> So, all this is about hibernation? Does that mean that it's safe to
> >> unfreeze before invoking resume? ie. we currently do,
> >>
> >> freeze
> >> suspend devs
> >> resume devs
> >> unfreeze
> >>
> >> If we can just do,
> >>
> >> freeze
> >> suspend devs
> >> unfreeze
> >> resume devs
> > Ummm... even better, does that mean, in the long term, we can decouple
> > freezing and device pm operations? If this is just about hibernation,
> > there's no reason to wrap device driver pm ops with freezer, right?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> Rafael has spent far more time than me thinking about the semantics
> here, so I'd like to defer to him. Rafael?...

Please see my reply to Tejun.

Thanks,
Rafael



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