Re: [PATCH v2] Add suspend/resume for HPET

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 09:53:43AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Make them be at the top of the device tree by adding them early. That's 
> the whole point of the device tree after all - we have an ordering that is 
> enforced by its topology, and that we sort by when things were added.
> 
> Right now the way things work is (iirc - somebody like Greg should 
> double-check me) is that we add all devices to the power list at 
> device_add() time by traversing the devices fromt he root all the way out, 
> and doing a device_add() which does a device_pm_add(), which in turn adds 
> it to the power-management list - so that the list is always topologically 
> sorted.

Yes, this is how it works (or if not, then there's a bug that needs to
be fixed, as that is how it _should_ work...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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