From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>,
Software suspend <swsusp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Dropping CONFIG_PM_DISK?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:39:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078141191.28288.83.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <opr36ljbsu4evsfm@smtp.pacific.net.th>
> >> - that 2.4 style PM got depreciated and let die before the
> >> "new-driver-model" PM is workin
> >
> > Except that it never worked
>
> It is actively used for ide, network, serial drivers with swsusp2.
Without any proper ordering guarantee, IDE could take requests
after beeing suspended, which could be fatal (and cause data loss)
etc...
Moving to the new model is easy. I don't see why we should have had
such a "compatibility" path on a major kernel version, that makes
no sense, just help fixing the drivers that need more fixing instead.
> >
> >> - that perfectly good drivers were rewritten from scratch,
> >> but without functioning PM support
> >
> > Please, give names.
> >
>
> A few I tested:
>
> AGP (sis, savage)
> trident (Ali153x)
> Serial (82x50)
> Yenta (Toshiba Topic95)
>
> Regards
> Michael
--
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-02-29 16:17 ` Dropping CONFIG_PM_DISK? Karol Kozimor
2004-02-29 16:23 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-29 17:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-29 18:10 ` Michael Frank
2004-02-29 21:33 ` [Swsusp-devel] " Micha Feigin
2004-03-01 2:51 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-01 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-01 11:35 ` Karol Kozimor
2004-03-01 11:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-01 11:51 ` Karol Kozimor
2004-03-01 12:56 ` Martin Wickman
2004-03-01 13:22 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-01 12:34 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-01 11:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-01 11:57 ` Karol Kozimor
2004-03-01 22:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-01 11:43 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-01 11:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-03-01 12:48 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-01 13:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-01 14:33 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-01 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-01 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-29 18:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-29 18:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-01 9:40 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-01 10:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-01 10:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-01 9:58 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-03-01 12:46 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-01 18:16 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-03-01 20:22 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-01 10:45 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-03 1:53 [Swsusp-devel] " John Mock
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