Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI / serial: Add UART change_pm support with ACPI power domain

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:39:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:07:28 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 02:26:26PM +0800, Lv Zheng wrote:
> > > This patch enables ACPI power domain on UART user devices. With this
> > > patch, Linux can achieve open/close based ACPI power manageability for
> > > UART tty ports.
> > 
> > So you are going to be sticking acpi_* calls into common core places all
> > over the kernel for stuff like this?
> > 
> > What's wrong with using the existing pm callbacks that are there for all
> > platforms to use?
> 
> I think that this just hasn't been thought through sufficiently (again).

Ugh.  Ok, I now am going to just quietly drop all intel.com patches to
the tty/serial layer unless they have at least 2 signed-off-by: lines,
one of which is by someone who is "well known" to me as being sane.

greg k-h
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