From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:54:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097492066.3241.1.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041011101824.GC26677@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 20:18, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Maybe the real problem is that we are trying to use the device suspend
> > > functions for suspend-to-disk, when we don't really want to change the
> > > device's power state at all.
> >
> > An acceptable solution is certainly to instead of passing down "go to D3",
> > just not do anything at all. HOWEVER, I doubt that is actually all that
> > good a solution either: devices quite possibly do want to save state
> > and/or set wake-on-events.
>
> And DMA needs to be stopped, or it is "bye bye data" situation.
This is true for pretty much any PM state
> Does sparse now have typechecking on enums? Solution that was in -mm
> was basically "put enums there so drivers can't be confused" + "signal
> global state out-of-band in global variable". It was not too nice, but
> it certainly was working.
> Pavel
--
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-11 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 0:45 Totally broken PCI PM calls Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 2:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 3:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-10-11 4:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 4:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-10-11 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 14:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 14:56 ` suspend-to-RAM [was Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls] Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 17:39 ` Olivier Galibert
2004-10-11 18:21 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 15:53 ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 16:17 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 17:09 ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 18:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 18:40 ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 16:47 ` Totally broken PCI PM calls David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 22:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-11 23:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 3:00 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 4:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-12 16:56 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 9:27 ` Russell King
2004-10-12 11:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 4:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 10:18 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 10:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-11 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-15 13:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-15 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 20:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-24 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 16:36 ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 21:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-11 21:37 ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:12 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-12 2:59 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 8:54 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-12 10:32 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-12 18:28 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 20:28 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-13 13:34 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 1:24 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-12 8:53 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-12 18:52 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 19:50 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-12 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 22:35 ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 3:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 4:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 4:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 4:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 4:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 16:15 ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 2:46 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 4:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 10:49 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-12 11:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 11:38 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-12 11:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 10:08 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 9:51 ` Pavel Machek
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