Re: [PATCH] apple-gmux: Restore switch registers on suspend/resume

[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:09:53AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> After suspend and resume, the values of these registers seem to change
> from what they were at suspend time, potentially preventing the actual
> output lines from being enabled post-resume. This saves relevant state
> at suspend and restores it when resumed.
> 
> This is at least required on the MacBook Pro 8.2 when the Intel GPU is
> manually selected in GRUB config before the kernel is loaded.

I've got a couple of problems with this. The first is that the backlight
update_status callback isn't an appropriate place to do this. Adding
suspend/resume ops for the pnp_driver would be better.

But the more serious concern is whether or not its safe to simply
restore the register values. I know that the reverse engineering work
done on the gmux has revealed a particular sequence for selecting the
active GPU. A brute force restoration of the registers disregards this
sequencing, which doesn't seem like a good idea.

Seth