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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	'iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org',
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Suspend and Resume Support for Intel IOMMU
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:19:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218171935.GA14625@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902180910160.21686@localhost.localdomain>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> >
> > +static int vtd_enabled;
> ..
> > +static int iommu_resume(struct sys_device *dev)
> > +{
> ..
> > +	if (!vtd_enabled)
> > +		return 0;
> 
> Hmm. Why do this?
> 
> Wouldn't it be much more logical to only register the 
> iommu_sysdev if the thing is enabled, rather than having an 
> odd flag that gets tested at runtime?

The sysdev_class_register() could be done straight in 
intel_iommu_init(), because that gets called by pci_iommu_init() 
which is an fs_initcall() - so all the sysdev facilities should 
be up and running already.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 16:56 [PATCH] Suspend and Resume Support for Intel IOMMU Fenghua Yu
2009-02-18 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-18 17:19   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-18 17:28     ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-03-25 16:06       ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-18 17:44 ` Ingo Molnar

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