From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend
	and	hibernation callbacks (rev. 8)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:45:52 +1000
Message-ID: <1208205952.6958.174.camel@pasglop>
References: <200804040111.15255.rjw@sisk.pl>
	<200804132339.45280.rjw@sisk.pl> <1208124646.6958.61.camel@pasglop>
	<200804140027.12161.rjw@sisk.pl> <1208126822.6958.63.camel@pasglop>
	<20080414105522.GA4716@ucw.cz>
Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080414105522.GA4716@ucw.cz>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm>,
	<mailto:linux-pm-request@lists.linux-foundation.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm>
List-Post: <mailto:linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
List-Help: <mailto:linux-pm-request@lists.linux-foundation.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm>,
	<mailto:linux-pm-request@lists.linux-foundation.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org
Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>, ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:55 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2008-04-14 08:47:02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, I'm not sure and I'm not going to introduce the change right now, after
> > > the paches have been included in -mm.
> > > 
> > > That would require quite some changes in the core code that I'd prefer to
> > > avoid for now.  We can do something like this in a separate patch series after
> > > the present one settles down a bit.
> > 
> > I disagree.
> > 
> > Doing it later would introduce yet another major semantic change.
> 
> 'allow load_firmware from prepare that was not allowed before' is not 'major'.

Having user space fully operating is major.

Ben.