[PATCH RFC 2/2] mtd : Make the mtd_suspend return 0 if the suspend is not implemented

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Thu Feb 2 15:36:51 EST 2012


On Thursday, February 02, 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:40:26PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 02, 2012, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 23:58 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > Thanks, but is anyone actually going to push it to Linus any time soon?
> > > 
> > > I agree, but I am not the maintainer so cannot answer. David Woodhouse
> > > is aware of this, but I do not know when he gonna send the pull request.
> > 
> > Well, the problem is being reported by more and more people, so I'd
> > like to push the fix quickly.
> > 
> > David, please let me know if you don't want me to include the $subject patch
> > into the next PM fixes pull request.  If I don't hear from you, I'll push it
> > next week for -rc4.
> 
> I too have it in my tree as a patch which Artem sent me, as it's rather
> fundamental to not oopsing the kernel when you suspend/resume on any ARM
> platform.

It actually affects everyone using MTD and suspend (not only ARM) and that's
why I thought I'd take it, but I'm fine with any other resolution as long as
the patch goes to Linus before 3.3-final.

Thanks,
Rafael



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