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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: BUG in include/linux/pm.h: remote wakeup settings
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:53:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803100953.43829.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0803101011540.3493-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Monday 10 March 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> Currently include/linux/pm.h doesn't define the should_wakeup field in 
> dev_pm_info, or the related accessor macros, unless CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is 
> set.

Right, and I certainly recall pointing that out sometime last year...
so it's not exactly a new discovery.


> This is wrong.  Even though the system can't go to sleep, individual
> devices may be placed in low-power states (runtime PM).  Thus the
> various wakeup settings should be available whenever CONFIG_PM is on.
> 
> I don't want to submit a patch to fix the problem right now, because it
> would clash with ongoing changes that Rafael is making.  But the bug
> needs to be fixed in time for 2.6.26.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-10 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-10 14:18 BUG in include/linux/pm.h: remote wakeup settings Alan Stern
2008-03-10 15:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-10 18:44   ` [PATCH] PM: make wakeup flags available whenever CONFIG_PM is set Alan Stern
2008-03-10 16:53 ` David Brownell [this message]

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