On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > At this point, yes. At least drivers should leave the devices active and > > let the core power take care of them. > > What if the driver is unbound while the device is suspended? It seems > pretty awkward. The release method would have to do: > > pm_runtime_get_sync(dev); > pm_runtime_disable(dev); > pm_runtime_set_suspended(dev); > pm_runtime_put_noidle(dev); That's correct, but as I said I don't think it's safe to do anything else in general at this point (please remember that it must cooperate with system suspend/resume). This still is a work in progress, though, so if you have an idea how to improve it, I surely won't object. :-) Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html