Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758154AbXE0Q2a (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 12:28:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756355AbXE0Q2W (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 12:28:22 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:33599 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756074AbXE0Q2W (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2007 12:28:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:26:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matthew Garrett cc: Pavel Machek , Romano Giannetti , Chris Wright , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: pcmcia resume 60 second hang. Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review In-Reply-To: <20070527155738.GA20006@srcf.ucam.org> Message-ID: References: <1179870110.16656.2.camel@localhost> <1180008394.15600.26.camel@localhost> <20070524200435.GA9604@elf.ucw.cz> <20070524220017.GC9604@elf.ucw.cz> <20070524221743.GD9604@elf.ucw.cz> <20070527155738.GA20006@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 23 On Sun, 27 May 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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). Linus - 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/