Pavel Machek | 1 Aug 2005 09:15
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Re: revert yenta free_irq on suspend

Hi!

> > You said earlier we only should fix drivers that need fixing, but they
> > all need fixing
> 
> I think you're still talking from a theoretical standpoing, while all my 
> arguments are practical.
> 
> In _practice_, I hope that
> 
>  (a) we don't see that very much (ie the people for whom things work 
>      already are a strong argument that this is less of a problem in
>      practice than people try to make it appear)
> 
>  (b) drivers, _especially_ on notebooks, are already able to handle an 
>      incoming interrupt with the device in D3 state and returning 0xff
>      for all reads.
> 
>      In particular, this is exactly the same thing that you get on a 
>      surprise device removal too.

Not all devices that we want power-managed are hot-pluggable, even on
notebooks. If I need to go all over the tree fixing drivers, I'd much
rather add free_irq/request_irq than mess with interrupt routines on
hardware I don't have...
								Pavel
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