Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5

[Patrick Mochel]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:

> At 11:08 AM -0500 10/18/01, Taral wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:52:29PM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> >>  When a suspend transition is triggered, the device tree is walked first to
> >>  save the state of all the devices in the system. Once this is complete, the
> >>  saved state, now residing in memory, can be written to some non-volatile
> >>  location, like a disk partition or network location.
> >>
> >>  The device tree is then walked again to suspend all of the devices. This
> >>  guarantees that the device controlling the location to write the state is
> >>  still powered on while you have a snapshot of the system state.
> >
> >Aha! A much nicer solution to the problem the ACPI people are having
> >with suspend/resume (ordering problems).
> 
> What happens to state changes between the first and second traversal 
> of the device tree?

State changes of what?

After the first walk (save_state), you essentially have a snapshot of the
system in memory which can be written to disk, memory, etc.

Once that is done, you disable interrupts and walk the tree again to power
off devices. 

	-pat