Re: [PATCH] Add SIMPLE_PM_OPS: make switching to dev_pm_ops lesserror-prone

[Albin Tonnerre]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:55:33PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote :
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:36:12AM +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> > In a number of cases, the .suspend, .freeze, .poweroff and .resume,
> > .thaw, .restore functions are identical. However, they all need to be
> > assigned to avoid regressionsm as the previous code called .suspend
> > resp. .resume in all those cases. SIMPLE_PM_OPS allows to deal with
> > this case.


> I'd much rather have conversions done with a bit more analysis now that
> our framework is more flexible and we can have specialized routines for
> hibernation and suspend.

I still think that even though they can, quite a number of drivers won't
/need/ to have different functions for this, but maybe I'm mistaken.

> Maybe we should try changing from run-time to build time warning so that
> users are not overly concerned with it?

I'm not sure that solves the problem. The fact is that even for developers, it's
easy to overlook that assiging only the .suspend and .resume fields is probably
a mistake.

Regards,
-- 
Albin Tonnerre, Free Electrons
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