Re: Solving suspend-level confusion

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> I've also done partial-tree support for suspend2 by making a new list
> (along side the active, off and off_irq lists) and simply moving devices
> I want to keep on (plus their parents) to this list prior to calling
> device_suspend. Works well for keeping alive the ide devices being used
> write the image.

How so ? By not calling suspend for it at all ? That's broken, the
driver wants suspend to match the resume it will get when the image
is reloaded, that's the only way the driver can guarantee a sane state
saved in the suspend image.

Ben.


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