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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-02-15 22:24:37 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-02-15 22:24:37 +0100
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts: net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c net/mac80211/sta_info.h
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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.