Re: [RFC PATCHv3] drivers: power: Detect device suspend/resumelockup and log event in pstore.

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2013-08-28 15:43:42, Colin Cross wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:36 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 08/28/2013 01:52 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:45:45 AM Zoran Markovic wrote:
> >>> Hi Rafael,
> >>>> It doesn't look too bad from a quick look, but there's a couple of things
> >>>> I don't like in it still (relatively minor).
> >>> If there are things you would like changed in this patch, please let
> >>> me know. It would be nice to catch the 3.12 merge window.
> >> Well, it's not in my queue to be honest.
> >>
> >> Is there any practical reason why it should go into the next release?
> >
> > I wouldn't say its critical for the next release, but I feel like this
> > was the same response last cycle. Zoran's since investigated the various
> > alternative approaches you've suggested, and continues to be interested
> > in resolving your remaining objections.
> >
> > Its a useful feature the Android devs use, which could also help
> > non-android developers debug suspend issues on their systems.
> >
> > If you really just feel its something best left out of tree, that's hard
> > to argue against. Its just a debug tool and the android guys don't have
> > an issue carrying their own tree, after all. But the cost of leaving it
> > out is just the potential of others having to re-implement similar hacks
> > on their own instead of collaborating on shared infrastructure.
> 
> And the benefit is that you are more likely to get bugreports that
> have a stack trace of the offending suspend callback instead of "my
> laptop doesn't suspend any more".

Laptops do not have persistent store for dmesg. So... are you sure?
									Pavel
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