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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: Exposing ROM's though sysfs
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:39:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091227152.5054.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730181205.GW10025@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 19:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I don't see a good way of doing this, unfortunately.  It'd probably be
> enough to call ->suspend on the driver while you read the contents of
> the ROM, but that's pretty ugly.

Is the BIOS guaranteed readable in D3 if we call suspend ?

Since we only need the BIOS in some special cases we could just reject
the request if the device is in use. If it has a driver - ask the
driver, if it doesn't then ask sysfs.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-30 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-30 16:53 Exposing ROM's though sysfs Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 17:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 17:19   ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 17:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-30 17:57     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 18:06       ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 18:12       ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-30 18:12         ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 18:20           ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 18:49           ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 19:55             ` Greg KH
2004-07-30 20:05               ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 20:16               ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 20:29                 ` Greg KH
2004-07-30 18:59         ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:04           ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-30 19:30             ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:35               ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 19:39                 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:46                   ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:03                     ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 20:10                       ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:13                         ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:25                           ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 20:32                         ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 20:41                           ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 20:49                             ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 20:54                               ` Martin Mares
2004-07-30 21:00                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 21:07                               ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 21:12                                 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 19:47               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 22:18             ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2004-07-30 22:39         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-07-30 19:25   ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:35     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 19:41       ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:48         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 20:20           ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 22:41             ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <1091207136.2762.181.camel@rohan.arnor.net>
2004-07-30 17:24 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-30 19:14   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-30 20:26     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 22:36       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 21:41         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04  0:55           ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-04  0:59             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04  1:37               ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-04  1:57                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-04  2:16                   ` Jesse Barnes

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