On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, David Brownell wrote:

> >      do we violate a spec if we put a device
> > back in the state it was before power was lost?
> 
> First, you'd have to say how you can establish that it's the
> same device ...  and that the in-kernel state you want to
> associate with it is still valid.  Serial numbers don't work,
> and there were several dozen other "don't work" cases.

I presume that IDE devices fall into the "do work" category -- you can 
establish that they are the same device by convention (the user shouldn't 
exchange IDE drives while the system is suspended).

If you don't accept that rationale then you make it impossible ever to
resume from suspend-to-disk on any system where the root fs is on an IDE
disk, since no such system I'm aware of would provide power to the disk
drives while the system is off.

Alan Stern



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