Hi! > > > This /mostly/ works - I've had my test machine cycling through a suspend > > > cycle every 10 seconds for the past hour without any difficulties > > > providing I unload USB first. If USB is loaded, the suspend occasionally > > > fails with one of the devices returning -EBUSY and causing it to be > > > aborted. I haven't looked into this in any detail yet, but it's > > > presumably sufficiently generic code that it's potentially biting people > > > on PPC anyway. > > > > Most probably. > > > > Still, please take what I said in the other thread into consideration: We've > > been using the freezer for so long that at least some drivers started to > > rely > > on it being used. > > > > Even if there are no such drivers on your system, they can be used by other > > systems. > > Sure, but if any of these drivers run on PPC then they're broken anyway. > The assumption that processes will be frozen during suspend is true in > the specific case of ACPI and some of the ARM platforms, but not true on > PPC or APM systems. We either need to fix the drivers to stop assuming > this or add the process freezer to the other PM systems. Right now, > they're buggy.
Well, PPC people are aware of this, and they think they can fix the drivers. We probably want to drop the freezer for suspend long-term, so. PPC machines use small subset of all the drivers, so it apparently is not big problem for them. Pavel -- (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/