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On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:17:47PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> That aside, keeping the driver layers read-only sounds more complicated
> than just freezing processes.

It's a problem that effectively has to be solved for STR anyway if 
we're going to suspend without freezing. The midlayers need to be able 
to block requests when the low-level devices are suspended, so we can 
just re-use that code.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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