linux-kernel - Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

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Message-ID: <1a297b360702111525v4f26ad4ax9af8fba45936c22f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:25:32 +0400
From:	"Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@...il.com>
To:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net
Cc:	"Willy Tarreau" <w@....eu>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, tilman@...p.cc
Subject: Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 02:57 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> > On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Neither am I. I'm just asking that new drivers have power management as
> > > standard.
>
> > What if the hardware doesn't support power management ?
>
> You would still want to do the cleanup and configuration that you'd do
> for module load/unload.
>

By adding dummy functions, wouldn't that just look awkward ?

regards,
manu
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