Re: Nested suspends; messages vs. states

Pavel Machek
2005-03-21T20:20:16Z

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Hi!

> Messages vs. states: At the moment the PM core seems to be pretty
> confused over this distinction. Right in the definition of struct
> dev_pm_info we have:
>
> pm_message_t power_state;
>
> Obviously a message isn't the same thing as a state. This looks like
> something that will need to be changed in a lot of drivers when we
> introduce the new notion of a power state.

This is not so obvious to me. Message seems to represent the state
driver is in quite well... Plus we need PMSG_ON for state the device
gets after resume, but that's quite easy...
Pavel
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