Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen | Date | Tue, 17 Dec 2013 03:35:14 +0100 |
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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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