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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:24:22 +0200 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> Cc: "Dasgupta, Romit" <romit@...com>, David Engraf <david.engraf@...com.eu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PM] Fixes missing PM entries in sysfs without CONFIG_PM_SLEEP On Monday, 4 of August 2008, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Rafael, any objections? > > > > Hm, well, one thing below. > > > device_pm_add() can now be void and the error variable in there is not > > necessary any more. > > Do you think we will want to make device_pm_add() return an error at > some point in the future? Well, maybe, but not any time soon. :-) > For example, earlier you had it fail if the parent device was asleep, instead > of just printing a warning. Yes, I remeber it, but there still are some drivers that would break if we did that. Anyway, I think it won't be hard to change device_pm_add() to return error codes again if we decide to in future. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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