Re: [linux-pm] Null suspend/resume functions

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2009-11-17 12:41:25, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:52:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > I believe that having few nop functions around the tree should not be
> > huge problem. If it is, you can introduce one shared top function into
> > the core...
> 
> The problem I have with that is that for most APIs noop functions are a
> big fat warning sign that something is going wrong and the API is being
> abused.  This then creates noise and code review problems in the driver
> code since you've got something that normally suggests a problem.

That still sounds like poor reason to add tests to core. But return 0
function for that purpose should be ok (and should make code easy to
review, too).

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