Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Dropping CONFIG_PM_DISK?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> Appreciated, suspending a driver like sending XOFF to a tty is ideal,
> but not neccessary for _most_ drivers (software suspend) purpose.
> 
> Wrt IDE, in practice all processes get frozen well before
> suspending drivers. Tested and no issues were ever reported with 2.4.

It is still fragile. I have seen IDE requests slipping in anyway.

But IDE isn't a problem, I wrote a working PM implementation for
IDE in 2.6. 

> > Moving to the new model is easy. I don't see why we should have had
> > such a "compatibility" path on a major kernel version, that makes
> > no sense, just help fixing the drivers that need more fixing instead.
> 
> What for write new drivers for (fast obsoleting) hardware?.

Ok, you are at troll, no need to argue more.



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