On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 15:19:45 schrieb Alan Stern: > > 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 How can you do that? > and in many cases > suspending to disk will disconnect all devices on a bus, But these disconnects aren't done by the PM core; they are done by individual drivers or subsystems. > so I'd say a > failure to resume is just a limited subcase of a device vanishing during > sleep. I'll go along with that. If a device vanishes during sleep, the PM core isn't responsible for unregistering it -- the device's subsystem is. Alan Stern -- 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