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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, 6 July 2007 00:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > There is that.
> > 
> > OK, bite the bullet. Tasks involved in fuse are special. Give them a flag
> > and teach the freezer to put them on ice only after all other task are
> > frozen. In a way they are kernel, there's no use denying that.
> 
> Yet another ugly hack to work around the fact that the freezer cannot
> work reliably ... yuck
> 
> Why not spend that energy fixing drivers to properly block requests
> instead ?

Because it's more difficult? :-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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