Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. Think of a printer > > daemon, for example. It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep. > > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print
Not necessarily. The machine must survive going to sleep while you are printing. Any other error return than -ERESTARTSYS is not an option. We can't simply change the ABI. Regards Oliver - 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/