On Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:29, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:17:47PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > That aside, keeping the driver layers read-only sounds more complicated
> > than just freezing processes.
> 
> It's a problem that effectively has to be solved for STR anyway if 
> we're going to suspend without freezing. The midlayers need to be able 
> to block requests when the low-level devices are suspended,

Very true.  And I think the right order should be to make the midlayers do
this and then remove the freezer from the STR code path, not the other way
around. :-)

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> so we can just re-use that code.

Yes, that should be possible.

Greetings,
Rafael
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