From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752714AbXBJHQJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:16:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752716AbXBJHQI (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:16:08 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48358 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752714AbXBJHQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:16:07 -0500 Subject: Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management? From: Arjan van de Ven To: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net Cc: LKML In-Reply-To: <1171059968.1484.90.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> References: <1171058269.1484.64.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <1171059433.8675.195.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1171059968.1484.90.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:15:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1171091749.8675.250.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > to a large degree, a device driver that doesn't suspend is better than > > no device driver at all, right? > > I'm not sure it is. It only makes more work for everyone else: We have > to help people figure out what causes their computer to fail to resume > (which can take quite a while), so we make the kernel printk on suspend if there are devices without suspend/resume. Heck, make a config option that prints that at modprobe time. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org