Re: fixing usb suspend/resuming

From: David Brownell
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 10:07:15 EST


On Thursday 29 July 2004 05:17, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>
> Regarding the spinning down before suspending to disk, I have a patch in
> my version that adds support for excluding part of the device tree when
> calling drivers_suspend.

I've always suspected such a patch would be needed ... :)

The drivers/base/power code is a bit too simplistic right now.
Among other things it keeps deadlocking when suspend()
or resume() routines try to remove devices. That makes
it needlessly hard to handle some common situations.

- Dave
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