Re: acpi-20040715: functional regression on ASUS M2N

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:49 -0400, Nathan Bryant wrote:

> The ELCR save/restore patch is causing regressions for some people. What 
> if the problem is that we're saving/restoring registers at the wrong time?

On closer investigation, I found that the system was restoring my ioapic
state /after/ it had started the programmable interrupt timer back up.
Changing line 310 of drivers/base/sys.c to list_for_each_entry_reverse
seems to have greatly improved my ability to suspend and resume (which
worked fine before the interrupt controller suspend/resume patches,
except that I didn't get many interrupts...) 

There doesn't seem to be any fine-grained way to control the order of
suspend/resume for individual drivers. It seems to be assumed that
everything that devices depend on will be higher than them in the tree,
and so everything will "just work" - I'm not sure this is true. As
another example, I just had my wireless card fail to resume correctly.
It tried to do a hotplug firmware load on resume. Which was difficult,
because it was resumed before the IDE interface was. How can this sort
of thing be avoided?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org



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