> > > Yes, I suppose. You're certain the old kernel's devices are completely > > > quiescent at that point? > > > > That's exactly the problem; trying to save a state from within the > > kernel would probably necessitate a freezer hack, which we are > > trying so dearly to avoid. > > Well, I don't think that avoiding the freezer whatever it takes > would be a good idea. There needs to be some balance. ;-)
Well, it takes some extra locking in the drivers. Which is needed _anyway_ if we want to have a working s2ram without the freezer. With the kexec approach, I don't see any extra requirements from the kernel to be able to drop the freezer. Miklos - 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/
