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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:54:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097492066.3241.1.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041011101824.GC26677@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 20:18, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Maybe the real problem is that we are trying to use the device suspend
> > > functions for suspend-to-disk, when we don't really want to change the
> > > device's power state at all.
> > 
> > An acceptable solution is certainly to instead of passing down "go to D3",
> > just not do anything at all. HOWEVER, I doubt that is actually all that 
> > good a solution either: devices quite possibly do want to save state 
> > and/or set wake-on-events. 
> 
> And DMA needs to be stopped, or it is "bye bye data" situation.

This is true for pretty much any PM state

> Does sparse now have typechecking on enums? Solution that was in -mm
> was basically "put enums there so drivers can't be confused" + "signal
> global state out-of-band in global variable". It was not too nice, but
> it certainly was working.
> 								Pavel
-- 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-11  0:45 Totally broken PCI PM calls Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11  2:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11  3:42   ` Paul Mackerras
2004-10-11  4:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11  4:24       ` Paul Mackerras
2004-10-11  9:57         ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 14:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 14:56           ` suspend-to-RAM [was Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls] Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 15:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 17:39               ` Olivier Galibert
2004-10-11 18:21                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 15:53             ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 16:17               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 17:09                 ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 18:23                   ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 18:40                     ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-11 16:47         ` Totally broken PCI PM calls David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:28           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 22:58             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-11 23:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12  3:00                 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12  4:09                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-12 16:56                     ` David Brownell
2004-10-12  9:27             ` Russell King
2004-10-12 11:24               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11  4:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 10:18       ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 10:54         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-11 16:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-15 13:59           ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-15 15:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 20:58               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-24 21:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 16:36     ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 21:17       ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-11 21:37         ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:12           ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-12  2:59             ` David Brownell
2004-10-12  8:54               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-12 10:32                 ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-12 18:28                 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 20:28                   ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-10-13 13:34                     ` David Brownell
2004-10-12  1:24           ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-12  8:53           ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-12 18:52             ` David Brownell
2004-10-12 19:50               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-12 22:13               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 22:35                 ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:26       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11  3:45   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11  4:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11  4:23       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11  4:32         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11  4:55           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-11 16:15             ` David Brownell
2004-10-11 22:22               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12  2:46                 ` David Brownell
2004-10-12  4:02                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 10:49                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-12 11:27                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-12 11:38                         ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-12 11:51               ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11 10:08     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-11  9:51 ` Pavel Machek

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