Re: ordering of suspend/resume for devices. any clues, anyone?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:31:24PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BlueAngel
> 
> works.
> 
> am seeking some advice regarding power management - specifically
> the ordering of devices "resume" functions being called.
> 
> we have an LCD, and an ATI chip.  switching on the LCD powers up
> the ATI chip.
> 
> unfortunately, resume calls the ATI device initialisation
> _before_ the LCD resume initialisation.  the ATI chip's
> initialisation fails - naturally - because it's not even
> powered up.
> 
> of course - this can't be taken care of in userspace as an apm
> event because the framebuffer device cannot be a module [without
> terminating all running x-applications].
> 
> so.
> 
> possible solutions, as i see them:

<snip>

Known issue, I'd take this to the linux-pm mailing list instead, as the
people there are working on stuff for this.

thanks,

greg k-h