On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > It might also be nice to make sure that the driver core autoresumes a > > > > device before probing it and autosuspends a device (after some > > > > reasonable delay) after unbinding its driver. > > > > > > Agreed. > > > > This is another case where a usage counter comes in handy. The driver > > core resumes the device and increments the counter -- thus preventing > > any unwanted autosuspends -- before making the probe and remove calls. > > I like this idea. > > BTW, where exactly the counter should be increased in that case? > > I thought of driver_probe_device(), but is it sufficient? Or is there a better > place? That's okay. Or you could put it in really_probe(). Either one. 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
