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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:25:32 +0400
From: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
To: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net
Subject: Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?
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On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 02:57 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> > On 2/12/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Neither am I. I'm just asking that new drivers have power management as
> > > standard.
>
> > What if the hardware doesn't support power management ?
>
> You would still want to do the cleanup and configuration that you'd do
> for module load/unload.
>

By adding dummy functions, wouldn't that just look awkward ?

regards,
manu