Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend toRAM pathway

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> I fear, that your efforts to "save" the freezer are in vain.  It is
> already moderately hackish with that PF_FREEZER_SKIP and the kernel
> dotted randomly with try_to_freeze() calls, but adding bandaids to try
> to order freezing userspace processes in the right order would just
> make it a horrible mess.

I agree that bandaids won't work.  What's needed is something more 
radical.  Things like FUSE must be written so that the kernel parts 
_can_ freeze even while they are waiting for a response from a user 
thread.

Alan Stern

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