Re: Call to rewrite swsusp

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:39:48 +0100

> Talking with some people last night it seems we need to redo the
> swsusp (driver). From what I've been told and have seen (from the
> code) it doesn't talk to the generic subsystems (like block layer,
> network layer etc). From talks with some kernel developers, they
> tell me we would have to modify all the drivers to properly handle
> system suspends. Is it not APM/ACPI's job to bring down the system
> to a stable state when suspending the machine?

> The swsusp should be asking all the generic subsystems. When the
> machine is about to be suspended it should flush any read/write
> buffers, stop processing packets and other things.

> Am I totally wrong on this? :-)

Yes.
Pavel

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