Re: Calling suspend() in halt/restart/shutdown -> not a good idea

Hi!

> Why are we calling driver suspend routines in these ? This is _not_ a
> good idea ! On various machines, the mecanisms for shutting down are
> quite different from suspend/resume, and current drivers have too many
> bugs to make that safe. I keep getting all sort of reports of machines

Well, powerdown at the end of suspend-to-disk should be *very* similar
to normal powerdown => if device_suspend() breaks something, it is a
bug in driver anyway.

Now, we may have a lot of such bugs, and the change went in too early,
but in the long run...
-- 
teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be.
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