Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:32 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:28:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:25 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > How (and why) does the WoL (which may be *any* packet, not just a magic 
> > > one) turn the screen back on?
> > 
> > Why would you care about the screen for a network event?
> 
> Because the application that needs to handle the network packet is 
> currently blocked trying to draw something to the screen.

Then that's an application bug right there, isn't it?

If should have listened to the window server telling its clients it was
going to go away. Drawing after you get that is your own damn fault ;-)
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