Hi!
> > As far as I can tell the PPC code simply shuts down the devices without
> > worrying about userspace at all. If this was reliable, what prevents us
> > from simply disabling the freezer for STR?
>
> Personally, I think that's the right thing to do.
>
> 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 guess we should warn the driver authors, then; and decide what
driver authors should do.
If I'm video4linux driver for grabbing screen, have been suspended,
and someone asks me to read a frame, should I
a) return -ESORRYIMSUSPENDED
b) just block the caller
?
a) seems ugly to my eyes (userspace should not know about suspend).
Pavel
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