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Message-ID: <cone.1248852351.306728.15136.1000@arca>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:25:51 +0200
From:	Peter Feuerer <peter@...e.net>
To:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, lenb@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acerhdf: convert to dev_pm_ops

Hi Boris,

Borislav Petkov writes:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Peter Feuerer<peter@...e.net> wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>>> That's not a reason for keeping code in the kernel and raising bloat
>>> levels unnecessarily. If the driver doesn't need to do anything on
>>> resume, then no function is needed.
>>
>> I don't think the verbose message is useless. If an user has a problem
>> with suspend / hibernate I can just ask him to load the module with
>> verbose=1 and dmesg tells whether the module is waking up or not.
> 
> Since the driver doesn't do anything upon resume, it _is_ _going_ to
> resume just fine. If not, then the problem is located somewhere else,
> i.e. you can safely assume that you are resuming ok. Also, it's not like
> this is the only verbose printk you have in the driver to not be able to
> follow what's going on...

Ok, I think you are right. So we will remove the resume functionality and 
keep just the suspend + freeze calls?

Btw, should I resend the 0.5.13 → 0.5.16 patch splitted up, so that Len can 
apply them?

kind regards,
--peter
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