Re: Suspend 2 merge: 21/51: Refrigerator upgrade.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 00:32:29 EST


Hi!

> > > > Silently doing nothing when user asked for sync is not nice,
> > > > either. BUG() is better solution than that.
> > >
> > > I don't think we should BUG because the user presses Sys-Rq S while
> > > suspending. I'll make it BUG_ON() and make the Sys_Rq printk & ignore
> > > when suspending. Sound reasonable?
> >
> > Yes, that's better. ... only that it means just another hook somewhere
> > :-(.
>
> :<. But we're only talking two or three lines. Let's keep it in
> perspective.

I think even three lines are bad. It means that swsusp is no longer
self-contained subsystem, but that it has its hooks all over the
place. And those hooks need to be maintained, too.
Pavel
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