Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 11:53:42 EST


Hi!

> > > > > Neither am I. I'm just asking that new drivers have power management as
> > > > > standard.
> > >
> > > > What if the hardware doesn't support power management ?
> > >
> > > You would still want to do the cleanup and configuration that you'd do
> > > for module load/unload.
> > >
> > By adding dummy functions, wouldn't that just look awkward ?
>
> If all you need to do is say 'I don't need to do anything' and we have a
> shared function that does that, all we're talking about doing is adding
> to your struct pci_device (or whatever)
>
> .resume = generic_empty_resume;
>
> To me at least, that doesn't look awkward, and says cleanly and clearly
> that you've checked things over and decided you know what's required.

Actually, I'd like it to be

.resume = generic_empty_resume; /* Explain, why your driver needs no
resume */

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