> And there is of course the puzzle of why there exists simultaneously
> driver shutdown() and suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) methods as I believed they
> are defined to do exactly the same thing.
No puzzle; that's not how they're defined. Both of them cause the
device to quiesce that device's activity. But:
- shutdown() is a "dirty shutdown OK" heads-up for some level
of restart/reboot; hardware will be completely re-initialized
later, normally with hardware level resets and OS rebooting.
- freeze() is a "clean shutdown only" that normally sees hardware
state preserved, and is followed by suspend() or resume().
Or so I had understood. That does suggest why having FREEZE in the
reboot path could be trouble: you could be rebooting because that
hardware won't do a clean shutdown!
- Dave
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