Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 02:16:35 EST



> >
> > to a large degree, a device driver that doesn't suspend is better than
> > no device driver at all, right?
>
> I'm not sure it is. It only makes more work for everyone else: We have
> to help people figure out what causes their computer to fail to resume
> (which can take quite a while),

so we make the kernel printk on suspend if there are devices without
suspend/resume. Heck, make a config option that prints that at modprobe
time.


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