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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] enums to clear suspend-state confusion
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:28:00 -0700
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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:31 am, Alan Cox wrote:
>    It would also be nice
> to have a driver flag to indicate which devices can simply be
> hotunplug/hotreplugged over a suspend and don't need extra duplicate
> code.

In fact, that should be the default:  if there's no suspend(),
use drivers' unplug/replug logic.  Bugs in that code need to be
fixed regardless of PM being used (or not).

Right now that won't work because of a self-deadlock
in the PM core, but that's a fixable problem.