Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 15:19:45 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 14:06:15 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > On Tuesday, 25 of March 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > > A device that cannot wake up is unusable. Shouldn't the pm core disconnect() > > > > such a device? > > It's not safe for the PM core to do such things unilaterally. The > decision to unregister a device should be made by the driver or the > subsystem. Why? You can trigger it from user space via sysfs and in many cases suspending to disk will disconnect all devices on a bus, so I'd say a failure to resume is just a limited subcase of a device vanishing during sleep. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
