> > --- linux-2.5.42/drivers/net/3c59x.c Sat Oct 12 21:25:00 2002
> > +++ linux-2.5.42-suspend/drivers/net/3c59x.c Sat Oct 12 21:20:48 2002
>
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> > + int in_suspend;
> > +#endif
>
> This looks like a serious design mistake. Surely it would be
> better to just have the network layer stop operations when the
> system is going into suspend, instead of having to modify 100
> individual network drivers ?
Whole userland is stopped at that point. That should mean that new
requests can not come.
OTOH packet from the network *can* come, and higher levels can not do
much with that. [They could ifconfig down the network interface... But
that can have sideefects we don't want to see...]
Pavel
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