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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:15:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063149303.31269.30.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309091604070.695-100000@cherise>

On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 00:07, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> What about suspend-to-ram, APM, and runtime states? 
> 
> That actually makes it quite a bit more complicated, globally. By forcing 
> the policy down to the drivers, you force each one to interpret the value 
> themselves and make the decision. By doing it centrally, the only thing 
> the low-level drivers have to worry about is going into the state. 

APM and ACPI suspend/resume (especially resume) are different. Very
different with some hardware in fact. For IDE to be done perfectly you
want to know if its ACPI S4 or APM suspend. The driver needs to be able
to get the actual aim but most I agree wont care which.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-09 23:16 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         ` [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Pavel Machek
2003-09-02 17:41           ` 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                     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-09-09 22:56               ` [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? Pavel Machek
2003-08-25 17:16       ` Russell King
2003-08-22 22:04 ` Timothy Miller

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