From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 8) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:41:08 +0200 Message-ID: <200804142241.11545.oliver@neukum.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:34210 "EHLO smtp-out002.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752333AbYDNUln convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:41:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Greg KH , pm list , ACPI Devel Maling List , Len Brown , LKML , Alexey Starikovskiy , David Brownell , Pavel Machek , Nigel Cunningham , Jesse Barnes , Andrew Morton Am Montag, 14. April 2008 16:49:26 schrieb Alan Stern: > Now, I don't see what the big deal is here. =A0We all agree that it w= ould=20 > be nice and appropriate if drivers could do things like=20 > request_firmware() during prepare(). =A0But for the moment they can't= =2E =A0 > It's not like this is some tremendous hardship -- you aren't going to= =20 > have to rip out all the existing prepare() implementations and rewrit= e=20 > them, because they don't exist yet! True. You cannot request firmware in the current suspend() call either. Rafael's code is a clear improvement over the existing code. Removal of the freezer will need a lot of rewriting in any case. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html