Hi! > > > > > .. but if the alternative is a feature that just isn't worth it, and > > > > > likely to not only have its own bugs, but cause bugs elsewhere? (And > > > > > yes, > > > > > I believe STD is both of those. There's a reason it's called "STD". > > > > > Go > > > > > to google and type "STD" and press "I'm feeling lucky". Google is > > > > > God). > > > > > > > > Is there really no use case for STD? > > [--snip--] > > > So my objections to STD have nothing to do with saving state and shutting > > > down. They have everything to do with the fact that it is not - and will > > > never be - a "suspend", and it shouldn't affect suspend. > > > > STD needs to snapshot system, and then it needs devices to be > > suspended so that snapshot is consistent. > > Not suspended. _Frozen_. In fact don't want any DMA transfers or interrupts > to take place when we're creating the image. That's all and that's what we're > doing (or rather, trying to do).
Yep, _frozen_. That's the right word. > So, the "suspend" and "resume" for the functions being called for that are > wrong, but then we call them with PMSG_FREEZE. ;-) Still, we could add > .freeze() and .thaw() callbacks for hibernation just fine. This wouldn't even > be that difficult ... It would be ugly big patch I'm afraid. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
