Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAMpathway

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> See the start of this thread. It's just not clear what the freezer buys 
> us - removing it gets rid of a load of subtle issues and complexity, and 
> turns system suspend into something that looks more like runtime 
> suspend (which might then encourage people to get runtime suspend 
> right...)

No, no -- you have it exactly backwards.  Removing the freezer turns 
STR into something _less_ like runtime suspend, because it adds the 
requirement that devices must not automatically be resumed when an I/O 
request arrives.

Alan Stern

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