linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 4/7] PM: Remove suspend and resume support from struct device

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Message-Id: <200706150032.21103.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:32:19 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 4/7] PM: Remove suspend and resume support from struct device_type

On Thursday, 14 June 2007 19:46, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:59:20AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >  On 6/14/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 14 June 2007 06:10, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 13 June 2007 18:20, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > > Dmitry, you added this recently, is this used in any code you plan to
> > > > > merge soon?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I will need it to implement input device resume (mainly to restore 
> > > LED
> > > > state and repeat rate for keyboards).
> > >
> > > Would that be a big problem to reintroduce it along with the user?
> > >
> > 
> >  Yes because that part is in Greg's domain so I am trying to set
> >  infrastructure up before I can commit my patches into my tree so that
> >  Andrew can safely pull from me into -mm. Greg normally adds such stuff
> >  during merge window so that means if we remove it now we'd need ~2
> >  releases to get it and the user back in.
> 
> Yes, don't worry, I'm not going to remove this as I know you rely on it.

Hm, in that case I'd have to rework the patches 5-7.  Perhaps I should resend
the entire series once again, without the $subject patch?

> Sorry for the delay in getting to these patches, I'm in meetings down in
> CA for the rest of the week...

No big deal. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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