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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 6)
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Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 17:13:11 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Basically yes.  Subsystems and drivers are allowed to keep devices
> suspended if they were suspended before the system went to sleep.  
> Remember, the purpose of the resume method is to let drivers know that
> the system is now awake, not to force them to put their devices into a
> high-power state.

Well, sometimes it is exactly that what we desire, eg. as a side effect
of lsusb. Should the callbacks have different semantics depending on
the reason you call them? And how should that information be transferred?

	Regards
		Oliver