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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@stericsson.com>,
	"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus WALLEIJ <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	"daniel.lezcano@linaro.org" <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] TTY: serial, add pm function
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:16:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130117131614.30b9089e@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130117023214.GB20928@kroah.com>

> Also, why does this driver need something that the hundreds of other
> serial drivers we have in-kernel today do not?  What makes it special
> over everything else?

We certainly will need power management hooks on the tty layer -
probably they belong on the tty_port operations.

Several things have happened that make it more relevant

- power levels have come down to the point that serial ports are no
  longer off the radar

- quite a few embedded and tablet devices have internal serial busses
  where turning off ports and stuff behind them matters.


Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-17 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12 12:40 [PATCH v2] TTY: serial, add pm function Rickard Andersson
2013-01-16  7:05 ` Greg KH
2013-01-16  7:53   ` Rickard Andersson
2013-01-16  7:58     ` Greg KH
2013-01-16  8:33       ` Rickard Andersson
2013-01-16 15:24         ` Greg KH
2013-01-17  0:36           ` Linus Walleij
2013-01-17  2:32             ` Greg KH
2013-01-17 10:10               ` Rickard Andersson
2013-01-17 13:16               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2013-01-18 12:43               ` Linus Walleij

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