Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

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On Wednesday, 4 July 2007 14:41, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:25:55PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Don't know what exactly?
> > 
> > How many drivers will be adversely affected by the $subject change.
> 
> Ok, so how about a CONFIG option which removes the freezer, so we can
> find out experimentally how many people without it?  We can make it be
> experimental at first, or (my preference) make it be the default
> initially, and if people complain that their laptop's suspend feature
> is broken, we can tell them how to turn back on the
> CONFIG_FREEZER_DEPRECATED option.

The freezer is generally still necessary for hibernation, so I won't call
it "DEPRECATED'.

Moreover, I'd prefer to make drivers use different callbacks for hibernation
and suspend before we do that.

Greetings,
Rafael


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