On Sunday, 27 May 2007 18:43, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:26:00AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > And by "disabling the freezer", I think we should just not call it at all. 
> > However, sadly, right now it's called from common code. I'll happily take 
> > a tested patch to split that code sequence up, and try to do it in 2.6.23, 
> > if somebody has the energy (I'm getting to the point where I may just do 
> > it myself, but my lazy nature still hopes for a STR person to step 
> > forward).
> 
> I'll take a look at this. It probably makes sense to build on Rafael's 
> work on splitting the codepaths up.

Actaully, removing the freezer from the suspend code path is simple.  You only
need to remove calls to freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() from
kernel/power/main.c .

That said, I don't think that PPC does what you say only.  We've discussed this
a bit on linux-pm, in this thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2007-May/012242.html

In particular, please see this message:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2007-May/012301.html

Greetings,
Rafael
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