From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:41:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20070208074130.29df585f@oldman> References: <200702080400.l1840lFd002314@hera.kernel.org> <45CB1AE6.9020707@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev , Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:46539 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752342AbXBHPlq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:41:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45CB1AE6.9020707@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:43:18 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 > > Commit: 43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 > > Parent: 2943ecf2ed32632473c06f1975db47a7aa98c10f > > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > AuthorDate: Tue Apr 9 12:14:34 2002 -0700 > > Committer: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > CommitDate: Wed Feb 7 10:37:11 2007 -0800 > > > > Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device > > > > This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume > > issues, if it wants to. It fixes a non-problem. I would like to see the network core suspend/resume proposal as well. Last time I examined doing network core suspend help, the problem was that the physical device suspend was called before the class device. It is not clear how this change would help.