On Wednesday, 4 July 2007 14:41, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:25:55PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Don't know what exactly? > > > > How many drivers will be adversely affected by the $subject change. > > Ok, so how about a CONFIG option which removes the freezer, so we can > find out experimentally how many people without it? We can make it be > experimental at first, or (my preference) make it be the default > initially, and if people complain that their laptop's suspend feature > is broken, we can tell them how to turn back on the > CONFIG_FREEZER_DEPRECATED option.
The freezer is generally still necessary for hibernation, so I won't call it "DEPRECATED'. Moreover, I'd prefer to make drivers use different callbacks for hibernation and suspend before we do that. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth - 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/
