From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] [Proposal]Another way to save/restore PCI config space
 for suspend/resume
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:11:25 -0400
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What this comes down to is that extended config space is device-specific.
Generic solutions will fail.  Only device drivers will work.

If there are no drivers for PCI bridges to properly save/restore
their config space, then should create them, even if this is all the 
drivers do.

-Len