Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756010Ab0FAKu7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 06:50:59 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:43946 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754934Ab0FAKu4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 06:50:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:50:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Neil Brown cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , Felipe Balbi , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Arve_Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org" , LKML , Florian Mickler , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) In-Reply-To: <20100601122012.1edeaf48@notabene.brown> Message-ID: References: <201006010005.19554.rjw@sisk.pl> <20100601090023.788cabf4@notabene.brown> <201006010232.20263.rjw@sisk.pl> <20100601113309.609349fd@notabene.brown> <20100601122012.1edeaf48@notabene.brown> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 743 Lines: 20 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Neil Brown wrote: > > I think you have acknowledged that there is a race with suspend - thanks. > Next step was "can it be closed". > You seem to suggest that it can, but you describe it as a "work around" > rather than a "bug fix"... > > Do you agree that the race is a "bug", and therefore it is appropriate to > "fix" it assuming an acceptable fix can be found (which I think it can)? If we can fix it, yes we definitely should do and not work around it. Thanks, tglx -- 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/