On Fri 2007-09-21 10:06:15, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:51 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds writes:
> > 
> > > It would indeed be nice if we could just take CPU's down early (while 
> > > everything is working), and run the whole suspend code with just one CPU, 
> > > rather than having to worry about the ordering between CPU and device 
> > > takedown.
> > 
> > That is certainly what we want to do on powerpc.
> 
> I would have expected that we do it exactly this way and it took me by
> surprise, that we do not.

Well, we used to do that, but acpi spec forbids that, and it means
userspace sees plugs/unplugs.
						Pavel
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