From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
torvalds@osdl.org, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you?
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:02:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030901120208.GC1358@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030825172737.E16790@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Hi!
> I think we need to expand the platform device support to include the
> notion of platform drivers. For example:
>
> struct platform_driver {
> int (*probe)(struct platform_device *);
> int (*remove)(struct platform_device *);
> int (*suspend)(struct platform_device *, u32);
> int (*resume)(struct platform_device *);
> struct device_driver drv;
> };
>
> (Aside: I like the movement of the suspend/resume methods to the bus_type,
> and I'd like to see the probe/remove methods also move there. For the
> vast majority of cases, the probe/remove methods in struct device_driver
> end up pointing at the same functions for any particular bus.)
But what about those few devices that need special handling? Like flush write cache on
IDE disk but not on cdrom?
--
Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
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Hi!
> I think we need to expand the platform device support to include the
> notion of platform drivers. For example:
>
> struct platform_driver {
> int (*probe)(struct platform_device *);
> int (*remove)(struct platform_device *);
> int (*suspend)(struct platform_device *, u32);
> int (*resume)(struct platform_device *);
> struct device_driver drv;
> };
>
> (Aside: I like the movement of the suspend/resume methods to the bus_type,
> and I'd like to see the probe/remove methods also move there. For the
> vast majority of cases, the probe/remove methods in struct device_driver
> end up pointing at the same functions for any particular bus.)
But what about those few devices that need special handling? Like flush write cache on
IDE disk but not on cdrom?
--
Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-02 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-22 21:08 [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Pavel Machek
2003-08-22 21:25 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-22 21:53 ` Pavel Machek
2003-08-22 22:05 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-23 1:03 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-08-23 16:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-08-25 19:05 ` [PM] powering down special devices Patrick Mochel
2003-08-25 19:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-08-25 9:52 ` [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Pavel Machek
2003-08-22 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2003-08-22 22:13 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-22 22:17 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-22 22:36 ` Pavel Machek
2003-08-23 10:47 ` Russell King
2003-08-24 11:54 ` Russell King
2003-08-26 15:39 ` [PM] Config Options Patrick Mochel
2003-08-24 12:08 ` [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Russell King
2003-08-25 15:47 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-25 16:27 ` Russell King
2003-08-25 16:57 ` Matt Porter
2003-08-25 17:14 ` Russell King
2003-08-25 17:34 ` Matt Porter
2003-08-28 15:38 ` Platform Devices Patrick Mochel
2003-09-01 12:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-09-02 17:41 ` [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Jens Axboe
2003-09-09 20:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 20:24 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-09 21:43 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-09 22:54 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-09 23:07 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-09 23:07 ` [PM] Passing suspend level down to drivers Pavel Machek
2003-09-09 23:23 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-10 0:06 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-10 6:12 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-09-10 11:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09 23:15 ` [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Alan Cox
2003-09-09 22:56 ` Pavel Machek
2003-08-25 17:16 ` Russell King
2003-08-22 22:04 ` Timothy Miller
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