Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

Patrick Mochel
2002-03-25T19:22:57Z

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > If it makes it easier for some, I consider poweroff not as an act unto
> > itself, but as a transition to state D3cold. :) And since we will
>
> That isnt neccessarily a good idea. Not every BIOS is terribly keen when
> faced with a soft boot and someone having powered off all the PCI bridges.

You can get around that by creating a PCI bridge driver. There really
isn't much that you want to do to a bridge anyway, even on power
transitions. Remove would be simply something like (I think) Jeff
mentioned later - simply restore config space to it's boot-time
configuration.

-pat