Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev and power management

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:35:58PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Note: The Power Management isn't well implemented in 2.5 yet. The
> infrastructure is mostly there, but the driver side semantics are
> still wrong. Patrick Mochel has a new implementation that is much
> better, but he didn't merge it upstream yet. I expect this will
> happen around Kernel Summit / OLS.

I'm slightly concerned by this.  There are a growing amount of drivers
in 2.5 which are being made to work with the existing power management
system.  This "new" system seems to have been hanging around for about
4 months now with no visible further work, presumably so that a paper
can be presented before its release.

My concern is that there has been:
- 4 months of non-exposure of this work
- 4 months of making the current system work
- and putting it in will require a fair number of drivers to be 
  re-worked.

Apart from driver re-work and that the core interfaces are supposed to
be stable, what are the technical arguments against merging it, say,
today?

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