Re: error to be returned while suspended

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 07:19:53 EST


On Tue 2006-10-03 13:23:00, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> which error should a character device return if a read/write cannot be
> serviced because the device is suspended? Shouldn't there be an error
> code specific to that?

If you are talking system suspend, then userspace should not run while
devices are suspended.

If you are talking runtime suspend, you should probably just wake the
device up on first access.
Pavel
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