On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:47 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. Think of a printer > > > daemon, for example. It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep. > > > > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print > > Not necessarily. The machine must survive going to sleep while you are > printing. Any other error return than -ERESTARTSYS is not an option. > We can't simply change the ABI.
Ugh ? Why returning an error from the printer driver to the userland print server/daemon would prevent the machine from "surviving" ? I would be happy with -EIO personally :-) Ben. - 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/
