From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC] Driver States
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:24:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405092423.GA7254@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112222717.3503.213.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Hi!
> > You have a few things here that can easily conflict, and that will be
> > developed at different paces. I like the direction that it's going, but
> > how do you intend to do it gradually. I.e. what to do first?
>
> I think the first step would be for us to all agree on a design, whether
> it be this one or another, so we can began planning for long term
> changes.
>
> My arguments for these changes are as follows:
0. I do not see how to gradually roll this in.
> 4. Having responsibilities at each driver level encourages a
> layered and object based design, reducing code duplication and
> complexity.
Unfortunately, you'll be retrofiting this to existing drivers. AFAICS,
trying to force existing driver to "layered and object based design"
can only result in mess.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-27 22:42 [RFC] Driver States Adam Belay
2005-03-30 5:57 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-30 22:45 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-05 9:24 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-04-06 19:51 ` [linux-pm] " Adam Belay
2005-04-08 10:31 ` Pavel Machek
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