Re: Regression in suspend to ram in 2.6.31-rc kernels

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 18:21:16 EST


On Friday 11 September 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2009-09-11 23:45:01, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> > 2009/9/11 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>:
> > >
> > >> And why suspend of mmc should generate card removal ??
> > >
> > > Card is powered down during suspend -> mmc can't guarantee the card is
> > > same and unchanged -> it makes some sense to simulate
> > > removal/reinsert.
> >
> > But how is this going to work when I keep the device mounted and
> > blockdev is basically destroyed - what if I'm reading file from card
> > during suspend ?
>
> "Don't do it".
>
> > >> if I suspend and resume my laptop and I keep the card inside - all
> > >> those step looks plain wrong.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately system can't tell.
> >
> > Well system could check basic card ids if they match after resume - if
> > some users wants to crash his card by randomly swapping it during
> > suspend/resume - I'd have no problem with that....
>
> Well, I do have small problem with that :-).
>
> Anyway, patch for rechecking IDs would probably be accepted,

By whom exactly?

> but that's not how it works now.

Indeed.

Thanks,
Rafael
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