On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
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> > > It can use the new notifier that happens before freezing yes. Johannes,
> > > I think that's pretty much what my old powermac implementation did
> > > (using my private notifier scheme I had there), might be worth reviving
> > > that bit
> > It can use the new notifier that happens before freezing yes. Johannes,
> > I think that's pretty much what my old powermac implementation did
> > (using my private notifier scheme I had there), might be worth reviving
> > that bit and sticking it into the generic apm_emu ...
>
> Note that yo
On Wednesday, 12 of December 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
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> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > I only just noticed a huge regression that was introduced when we moved
> > PowerPC to the generic APM emulation code instead of our own. I'm in
> > large part to blame
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 01:10 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> Hmm.
>
> I'm not that familiar with the APM emulation code, but the description
> of the
> problem above suggests that the APM emulation can install a suspend
> notifier for this purpose.
It can use the new notifier that happens be
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:04 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 01:10 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > Hmm.
> >
> > I'm not that familiar with the APM emulation code, but the description
> > of the
> > problem above suggests that the APM emulation can install a su
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 12:40 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > That basically means X will break. That's why X broke on the latest
> > > ubuntu until I whacked some new scripts in them to force console
> > > switching, among other things. Possibly other apps that relied
> > > on /dev/apm_bios to be
> > That basically means X will break. That's why X broke on the latest
> > ubuntu until I whacked some new scripts in them to force console
> > switching, among other things. Possibly other apps that relied
> > on /dev/apm_bios to be notified of system suspend/resume broke as well.
>
> Ah. I gue
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I only just noticed a huge regression that was introduced when we moved
> PowerPC to the generic APM emulation code instead of our own. I'm in
> large part to blame since I acked the patch...
>
> Basically, what we lost is the mec
I only just noticed a huge regression that was introduced when we moved
PowerPC to the generic APM emulation code instead of our own. I'm in
large part to blame since I acked the patch...
Basically, what we lost is the mechanism for notifying user applications
and waiting for their ACK before proc
