On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Still, our present approach doesn't seem to be correct overall. For example, > I think we should prevent a suspend from happening while a device is being > removed.
We could, however I don't think it's dangerous to allow it. The two problems to avoid are (1) messing up the PM device list pointers, and (2) calling a driver's suspend/resume methods while its remove method is running. (1) is handled by the pm_list_mutex and (2) is handled by locking dev->sem. Alan Stern -- 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/
