On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:04 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Why are we calling driver suspend routines in these ? This is _not_ a > > good idea ! On various machines, the mecanisms for shutting down are > > quite different from suspend/resume, and current drivers have too many > > bugs to make that safe. I keep getting all sort of reports of machines > > Well, powerdown at the end of suspend-to-disk should be *very* similar > to normal powerdown => if device_suspend() breaks something, it is a > bug in driver anyway.
Power Down != Suspend. Period. > Now, we may have a lot of such bugs, and the change went in too early, > but in the long run... Crap. It's not the same thing. Ben. - 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/
