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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-02-15 16:24:37 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-02-15 16:24:37 -0500
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@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ So in practice, the 'at all' may become a 'why freeze kernel threads?' and
freezing user threads I don't find really objectionable."
Still, there are kernel threads that may want to be freezable. For example, if
-a kernel that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it in
-principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try to
-access it at that time. However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will be
-frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be
+a kernel thread that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it
+in principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try
+to access it at that time. However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will
+be frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be
thawed after the driver's .resume() callback has run, so it won't be accessing
the device while it's suspended.
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