linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Convert several sysdev users to using struct syscore

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Message-ID: <20110311171231.GB10437@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:12:31 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...e.de>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Convert several sysdev users to using struct
 syscore_ops

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:34:02AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Some subsystems need to carry out suspend/resume and shutdown
> operations with one CPU on-line and interrupts disabled and they
> define sysdev classes and sysdevs specifically for this purpose.
> This leads to unnecessarily complicated code and excessive memory
> usage, so switch them to using struct syscore_ops objects for this
> purpose instead.

Heavily-Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

:)

Do you want to resend this with a signed-off-by and your first one so I
can apply it to my tree, or do you want to take it through yours?

thanks again for doing this.

greg k-h
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