Re: Some sort corruption of my Thermal Subsystem after suspend to ram

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 08:54:17 EST


On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:57:58AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:

> I'm not aware of a native Linux device driver that talks to this device
> (nor can I think of a useful purpose for such a driver)
> So it seems what is in play here is any BIOS code that talks to this device,
> and Linux's standard PCI config space restore.

Perhaps we should be more aggressive about restoring PCI config space if
there's no driver bound to a device. The alternative in this case would
seem to be to write a driver for this device that does nothing other
than handle suspend/resume.

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