Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752281AbbGEJUC (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2015 05:20:02 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:36627 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750708AbbGEJTx (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2015 05:19:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1496051.AgsebokWnB@vostro.rjw.lan> References: <4290667.ZqInAykFGS@vostro.rjw.lan> <20150703014250.GM7943@dastard> <1496051.AgsebokWnB@vostro.rjw.lan> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 10:50:36 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gFWCXP0kEznyU3kTmxrO78INsIY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] suspend: delete sys_sync() From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Dave Chinner , Len Brown , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Alan Stern , One Thousand Gnomes , Linux PM list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Len Brown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 27 On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [The argument that the user can pull removable storage devices out of the > system while suspended doesn't hold any water to me, because the user can > pull them out of the system when not suspended just as well and cause the > same kind of damage to happen.] The user may not notice the difference between a suspended and powered off machine, and thus think it's safe to unplug the USB memory stick while the machine appears off. If that's considered a valid use case, this would be a regression. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/