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

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On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:47 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run.  Think of a printer 
> > > daemon, for example.  It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O 
> > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep.
> > 
> > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep... trying to print
> 
> Not necessarily. The machine must survive going to sleep while you are
> printing. Any other error return than -ERESTARTSYS is not an option.
> We can't simply change the ABI.

Ugh ? Why returning an error from the printer driver to the userland
print server/daemon would prevent the machine from "surviving" ? I would
be happy with -EIO personally :-)

Ben.


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