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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add suspend and resume support to uli526x
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:31:29 +0200
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On Tuesday, 5 June 2007 07:56, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I hope soon to add suspend/resume to the network device class
> and remove driver specific suspend/resume from lots of devices.
> 
> The class suspend routine would just be:
> 	pci_save_state
> 	dev->stop
> 
> resume is
> 	pci_restore_state
> 	dev->open
> 
> for many devices that is all they need.

Well, that would be nice, but does it mean there's no need for the $subject
patch?

Rafael


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