On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And partly exactly _because_ even Cardbus is starting to be "legacy", I'd > personally prefer to try to simplify the model to the point where we don't > have to think about all the subtle interactions. Just making suspend act > as an eject would mean that we'd never have to worry about how the CardBus > bridge interacts with the PCI layer at suspend/resume time. Put another way: five years ago I would have felt that it could be important that people can suspend and resume while they have a CD-ROM mounted through a PCMCIA IDE card. Or something like that where you want to keep session information. These days, that scenario is less interesting to begin with, and we're generally better at some of the hotplug issues anyway. Example: one of the reasons I used to like not causing an unplug event was because I had network cards, and hated setting up the connection again. These days, all distros come with networkmanager or similar, and hotplug networking just works (even if the "CD-ROM mounted" case probably still would cause problems). So I think we used to have good reasons to try to maintain state over a suspend event, but many of those reasons have become weaker, while at the same time USB has meant that PCMCIA itself has become more of a "maintenance burden" rather than a "primary subsystem". Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
