On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:36, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:20, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're > > > using goes away - NFS has done it forever. > > > > Now, please tell me how many driver writers even thought that something > > might try to access their devices after .suspend() had been executed (or > > even whilie it was being executed)? > > Every single driver that fails under those conditions is already broken, > and has been forever. It's likely that they're broken under run-time > suspend, too.
Well, I won't argue with that, but do you actually know how many drivers are broken this way? 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/
