On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:21:42PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, 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. > > You persist in evading my point. I'm not worried about applications; > I'm worried about drivers. > > Let me put it explicitly: You're writing a driver. You're working on > the read, write, or probe method. You add code to check if a system > sleep is underway. Suppose the answer is Yes -- what does your driver > do next?
Leave the process blocked and defer any i/o until after resume. Why does it need to be any more complicated than that? -- 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/
