linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 8)

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Message-Id: <200804142241.11545.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:41:08 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 8)

Am Montag, 14. April 2008 16:49:26 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Now, I don't see what the big deal is here.  We all agree that it would 
> be nice and appropriate if drivers could do things like 
> request_firmware() during prepare().  But for the moment they can't.  
> It's not like this is some tremendous hardship -- you aren't going to 
> have to rip out all the existing prepare() implementations and rewrite 
> them, because they don't exist yet!

True. You cannot request firmware in the current suspend() call either.
Rafael's code is a clear improvement over the existing code. Removal
of the freezer will need a lot of rewriting in any case.

	Regards
		Oliver

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