On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:54:55PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > There's nothing wrong with it as such, it's just that our implementation > > appears to suck in a myriad of small ways that keep cropping up and > > biting people. Even without the sys_sync(), freezing processes results > > in the suspend failing because syslog is stuck in D state and won't go > > into the refrigerator. > > Okay, I can believe that. The proper response then is to fix the > freezer, not eliminate it. Has the syslog problem been reported on > linux-pm? I don't recall hearing of it before.
See the start of this thread. It's just not clear what the freezer buys us - removing it gets rid of a load of subtle issues and complexity, and turns system suspend into something that looks more like runtime suspend (which might then encourage people to get runtime suspend right...) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/
