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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Saturday 12 September 2009, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    > Well system could check basic card ids if they match after resume
> 
> No.  That (arguably) guarantees that it's the same card, but not that
> it wasn't modified in another machine during the suspend.

Generally speaking, we'd also need to check superblocks for this to work.
 
>    > if some users wants to crash his card by randomly swapping it
>    > during suspend/resume - I'd have no problem with that....
> 
> You should have a problem with it.  Taking a card from a suspended
> machine and working on it with a different machine is not a bizarre
> thing to want to do.

Agreed.

Thanks,
Rafael
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