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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix runtime device suspend/resumre interface
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:49:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221174950.GA23054@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0602201641380.21145-100000@monsoon.he.net>

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:55:34PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Here is an updated version of the patches to fix the sysfs interface for
> runtime device power management by restoring the file to its originally
> designed behavior - to place devices in the power state specified by the
> user process writing to the file.
> 
> Recently, the interface was changed to filter out values to prevent a
> BUG() that was introduced in the PCI power management code. While a valid
> fix, it makes the driver core filter values that might otherwise be used
> by the bus/device drivers.

Are there any existing bus/device drivers that are currently broken
because of this change?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-21 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21  0:55 [PATCH 0/4] Fix runtime device suspend/resumre interface Patrick Mochel
2006-02-21 17:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-02-27 19:18   ` Patrick Mochel
2006-03-01  0:38     ` Greg KH
2006-03-01 11:31       ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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