From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev and power management
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:11:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714201143.GE902@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058200445.515.23.camel@gaston>
Hi!
> > > I'm slightly concerned by this. There are a growing amount of drivers
> > > in 2.5 which are being made to work with the existing power management
> > > system. This "new" system seems to have been hanging around for about
> > > 4 months now with no visible further work, presumably so that a paper
> > > can be presented before its release.
> >
> > I believe it is bad idea to change driver
> > model again in 2.6.x-pre. I believe current
> > solution is pretty much okay.
>
> Current solution is not okay and actually, the save_state/suspend
> distinction makes no sense.
> We have designed a working solution
> a while ago now, Patrick has it implemented for month, it must
> get in now or 2.6 will not have proper power management but just
> "might work" kind of crap
save_state/suspend distinction may be irrelevant, but I don't see how
it makes whole current code "might work" kind of crap.
Can you describe some significant problem with current code? I do not
think it is good idea to have to touch all drivers in 2.6.0-test time
without some *good* reason.
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-14 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-07-08 23:25 ` fbdev and power management James Simmons
2003-07-09 11:35 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-07-09 14:10 ` Russell King
2002-01-05 11:13 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-14 16:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-07-14 20:11 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-07-09 17:45 ` James Simmons
2003-07-09 17:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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