From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760579AbYEAMyP (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 08:54:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756472AbYEAMyA (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 08:54:00 -0400 Received: from mjg.x.mythic-beasts.com ([93.93.128.6]:45076 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754289AbYEAMyA (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 08:54:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:53:48 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Len Brown Cc: Gabriel C , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, pavel@suse.cz, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Message-ID: <20080501125348.GA19922@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4818D9AB.3040402@googlemail.com> <200805010157.58607.lenb@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200805010157.58607.lenb@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: Some sort corruption of my Thermal Subsystem after suspend to ram X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:57:58AM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > I'm not aware of a native Linux device driver that talks to this device > (nor can I think of a useful purpose for such a driver) > So it seems what is in play here is any BIOS code that talks to this device, > and Linux's standard PCI config space restore. Perhaps we should be more aggressive about restoring PCI config space if there's no driver bound to a device. The alternative in this case would seem to be to write a driver for this device that does nothing other than handle suspend/resume. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org