Re: [PATCH 1/1] acer-wmi: switch driver to dev_pm_ops

From: Arnaud Faucher
Date: Sat Jul 25 2009 - 16:10:41 EST


On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 10:43 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:04:51AM -0400, Arnaud Faucher wrote:
> > Gets rid of the following warning:
> > Platform driver 'acer-wmi' needs updating - please use dev_pm_ops
> >
>
> Have you tested it with Suspend to disk? You are [potentially] breaking
> it since the new suspend and resume methods are not used by it, it calls
> freeze() and thaw() instead.
>
> Rafael,
>
> I wonder if PM core should automatically use suspend()/resume() in place of
> freeze()/thaw() when the latter pair is missing.
>

By studying drivers/base/platform.c, suspend()/resume() are not called
when freeze()/thaw() are missing. So you're right, this patch breaks
something.

I am testing right now a new patch against hibernation.

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