Re: [PATCH] don't suspend/resume 8xx chips

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 16:09:27 EST


On Wed 2008-03-26 16:28:12, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Recent testing has turned up some bugs in the new Intel suspend/resume code
> for old, 8xx chipsets. So for 2.6.25 it probably makes sense to apply this
> patch, which should prevent the new code from getting called on those
> chipsets. We should have this fixed soon, but not in time for 2.6.25
> unfortunately. Note that this patch (along with the suspend/resume code in
> general) could use more testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c b/drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c
> index e9d6663..6964a28 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c
> @@ -762,6 +762,11 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned
> long
> unsigned long base, size;
> int ret = 0, mmio_bar = IS_I9XX(dev) ? 0 : 1;
>
> + if (!IS_I9XX(dev)) {
> + dev->driver->suspend = NULL;
> + dev->driver->resume = NULL;
> + }
> +

Are you sure your driver needs no state saving?

Maybe register suspend that printks, returns error?
Pavel
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