Re: Problems with arch/i386/kernel/apm.c

[Alan Cox]

> > needed.  What I am really desiring to know is if there are any devices
> > that depend on the apm::send_event(APM_NORMAL_RESUME) happening while
> > interrupts are disabled.
> 
> Good spotting...  If any devices depend on what you describe, I would
> argue that their drivers should handle that not the core apm code...

The drivers can't handle it at the moment. I've been talking to many people
about this all hitting this sort of driver problem.

I think the fix is to keep two classes of power management objects and do
the following

	Call each 'nonirq' suspend function
	(aborting if need be)
	cli()
	Call each irq blocked suspend function
	suspend

resume:
	call each irq blocked resume function
	sti();
	call each nonirq resume

That is an easy change set to make and solves a lot of grief