From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:52:11 -0800 Message-ID: <20070209005211.GD30794@kroah.com> References: <200702080400.l1840lFd002314@hera.kernel.org> <45CB1AE6.9020707@garzik.org> <20070208074130.29df585f@oldman> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:49438 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945946AbXBIAxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:53:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208074130.29df585f@oldman> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:41:30AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 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. Now the real device of the network device (ethX and such) will be called first. If not, something's wrong... thanks, greg k-h