On Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > [snip] > > > >>>> * figure out which devices can wake up > >>>> * put devices into low power states (wake-up devices are placed in the Dx > >>>> states compatible with the wake capability, the others are powered off) > > > >> this can't be done by the image-saving kernel if that kernel doesn't know > >> about > >> the device. > > > > The image-saving kernel can be made to know about all of the "wake up" > > devices; all other devices should have already been powered off by the > > "hibernated" kernel. > > not nessasarily.
More than that. The hibernated kernel should not power off any devices, because that is _wasteful_ (unless, of course, the powering off a device is the only way to quiesce it). 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/
