Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 2/3] PCI PM: Let the core be more careful with respect to drivers using new framework

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Hi Rafael.

Just a couple of typos in the comment:

On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 22:33 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, the PM core always attempts to manage devices with drivers
> that use the new PM framework.  In particular, it attempts to disable
> the devices (which is unnecessary), to save their state (which may be
> undesirable if the driver has done that already) and to put them into
> low power states (again, this may be undesirable if the driver has
> already put the device into a low power state).  That need not be
> the right thing to do, so make the core be more careful in this
> respect.
> 
> Generally, there are the following categories of devices to consider:
> * bridge devices without drivers
> * non-bridge devices without drivers
> * bridge devices with drivers
> * non-bridge devices with drivers
> and each of them should be handled differently.
> 
> For bridge devices without drivers the PCI PM core will save their
> state on suspend and restore it (early) during resume, after putting
> them into D0 if necessary.  It will not attepmt to do anything else

s/attepmt/attempt/

> to these devices.
> 
> For non-bridge devices without drivers the PCI PM core will disable
> them and save their state on suspend.  During resume, it will put
> them into D0, if necessary, restore their state (early) and reenable
> them.
> 
> For bridge devices without drivers the PCI PM core will only save

s/without/with/

> their state on suspend if the driver hasn't done that already.
> Still, the core will restore their state (early) during resume,
> after putting them into D0, if necessary.
> 
> For non-bridge devices with drivers the PCI PM core will only save
> their state on suspend if the driver hasn't done that already.  Also,
> if the state of the device hasn't been saved by the driver, the core
> will attempt to put the device into a low power state.  During
> resume the core will restore the state of the device (early), after
> putting it into D0, if necessary.
> 
> For all devices the core will disable wake-up during resume.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

I'm not pretending to understand the gory details of the code itself,
and so don't want you to add a Reviewed-by or such like for me, thanks.

Regards,

Nigel

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