Re: Swsusp updates, do not thrash ide disk on suspend

Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:49:46 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

>...
> --- clean/Documentation/swsusp.txt 2002-07-09 04:54:06.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-swsusp/Documentation/swsusp.txt 2002-09-25 21:14:42.000000000 +0200
> @@ -156,6 +156,23 @@
> - do IDE cdroms need some kind of support?
> - IDE CD-RW -- how to deal with that?
>
> +FAQ:
> +
> +Q: well, suspending a server is IMHO a really stupid thing,
> +but... (Diego Zuccato):
>...
> +Ethernet card in your server died. You want to replace it. Your
> +server is not hotplug capable. What do you do? Suspend to disk,
> +replace ethernet card, resume. If you are fast your users will not
> +even see broken connections.
>...

This sounds as if it might makes even ISA cards hot-pluggable with the
implication that the drivers might need __devinit/__devexit etc.?

cu
Adrian

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