On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:37PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > But that's fine - "Are we undergoing a systemwide suspend" is an easy > > question to ask. Freezing processes instead means that most of those > > paths will never be tested. > > The question is easy to ask, but it's not so easy to figure out what > you should do if the answer is Yes. Freezing processes instead means > that those "untested" paths -- in many, many drivers -- won't have to > exist at all.
We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're using goes away - NFS has done it forever. -- 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/
