On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 13:01 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:43:22 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote
> > We should probably take the rtnl anyway though to be prepared for when
> > userspace is not suspended.. Need to think about that more though, and
> > possibly add a new "suspended" flag that makes it block all
> > configuration attempts.
> 
> Well, luckily we do take the rtnl already, wiphy_suspend() and _resume()
> do that around the cfg ops.

Good point.

> IMHO a suspended flag would be extra complexity that we should just
> hold off on until the freezer really is getting removed.

Well, kinda a chicken-and-egg problem here, can't remove the freezer
without looking at all this, but yeah, we can defer that and put it on
the todo list.

> For now is there anything besides driver support we need to do for this
> patchset?  I guess that the drivers will actually be OK as-is too unless
> there are any that do release_firmware in ->stop(), but it will be nice
> to clean them up.

I don't see anything, drivers need to do at all. They should all be fine
with suspending when hw is stopped anyway. We can remove some driver
code though.

johannes