From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nathan Bryant <nbryant@optonline.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, random1@o-o.yi.org,
Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: device_suspend() levels [was Re: [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx]
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:10:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090350609.2003.9.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40FD65C2.7060408@optonline.net>
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:34, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > 2 comments here:
> >
> > - The low level bus state (PCI D state for example) and the "linux"
> > state should be 2 different entities.
> >
> > - For PCI, we probably want a hook so the arch can implement it's own
> > version of pci_set_power_state() so that ACPI can use it's own trickery
> > there.
>
> Ok, so the takeaway message for driver writers is to treat the
> pci_dev->suspend() state parameter as an opaque value as far as
> possible, and just pass it on to the other layers
NO ! The exact opposite in fact. I'll work on cleaning that up and
write some doco this week with Pavel.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-20 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-20 15:22 [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 15:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-20 16:48 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 17:46 ` device_suspend() levels [was Re: [patch] ACPI work on aic7xxx] Pavel Machek
2004-07-20 18:10 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 18:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-07-20 18:34 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-20 19:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-07-20 19:23 ` Pavel Machek
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[not found] ` <1090694118.1971.13.camel@gaston>
2004-07-25 0:19 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-25 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-07-26 7:32 ` Andre Hedrick
2004-07-28 1:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-07-26 14:02 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-07-28 1:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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