From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
gregkh@suse.de, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] More PCI patches for 2.6.13
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:27:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43223696.5020902@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509091644050.30958@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>If something like a PCI power management function fails then it will likely
>>cause suspend or resume to malfunction, and we have a lot of such problems.
>
>
> No, for several reasons.
>
> First off, some of those functions can't fail in normal usage. Thus
> telling people that they have to check the return code is insane.
>
> Secondly, at least some of the suspend failures have historically been
> because drivers returned errors for no good reason. Adding yet another
> broken reason to return error is not going to help.
Agreed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-10 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 22:07 [GIT PATCH] More PCI patches for 2.6.13 Greg KH
2005-09-09 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09 22:54 ` Greg KH
2005-09-09 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-10 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-10 1:27 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-09-10 18:33 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-10 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11 11:33 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-10 10:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-10 21:07 Alan Stern
2005-09-10 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-10 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-10 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-10 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-10 23:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-11 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-11 0:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-11 0:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-10 23:02 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-11 11:38 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-10 22:32 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-10 23:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-11 6:47 ` David Woodhouse
2005-09-11 4:41 ` Greg KH
2005-09-11 6:47 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-11 2:34 Gabriel A. Devenyi
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