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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: Run-time PM idea (was: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PM:
	Rearrange core suspend code)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 00:05:23 +0200
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Am Sonntag, 7. Juni 2009 23:46:59 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> It may be necessary to resume a device synchronously, but I'm still
> thinking how to implement that.

This will absolutely be the default. You resume a device because you want
it to do something now. It seems to me that you making your problem worse
by using a spinlock as a lock. A mutex would make it easier.

	Regards
		Oliver