Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 8)

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Hi Rafael etc.

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:47 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Well, I'm not sure and I'm not going to introduce the change right now, after
> > the paches have been included in -mm.
> > 
> > That would require quite some changes in the core code that I'd prefer to
> > avoid for now.  We can do something like this in a separate patch series after
> > the present one settles down a bit.
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> Doing it later would introduce yet another major semantic change.
> 
> I think we should get it right now. There's no hurry in pushing things
> especially if they aren't quite right.
> 
> The ability for prepare() callbacks to sync with userland,
> request_firmware, etc... is an important feature that's been needed for
> some time imho.
> 
> Ben.

I agree. These calls have already been changing far too often in
mainline. I know it's all been necessary but please, can we try to make
one set of changes and just get it right this time?

Regards,

Nigel

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