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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:41:52 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add suspend/resume for HPET
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:09 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > 
> > > While I agree in principle with the patch, I'm a bit uncomfortable. The
> > > sys device suspend / resume ordering is not guaranteed and relies on the
> > > registering order.
> > 
> > Well, this is why we probably should try to get away from the "system 
> > device" issue, exactly because system devices are totally outside the 
> > normal ordering and only have a random linear order.
> > 
> > If the clocksources were actually in the device tree, you'd get all the 
> > normal guarantees about hierarchical ordering..
> 
> Right, but clock - sources/events need to be extremly late suspended and
> early resumed. How can we ensure this ?

Put it at the top of the device tree.

thanks,

greg k-h