Re: [RFC 3/3] PCI/PM: Disable PME poll for PCIe devices

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On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 21:31 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, September 17, 2012, Huang Ying wrote:
> > PME poll is not necessary for PCIe devices, because PCIe devices use
> > in-band PME message and IRQ on PCIe port to report PME.
> 
> Alas, not all of them as it turns out and even if they do, it doesn't
> work for some of them. That's why we've added the PCIe devices polling
> (quite recently, for that matter).
> 
> If you'd spent some time on some proper research regarding that (like browsing
> the changelogs of git commits modifying the relevant part of drivers/pci/pci.c),
> you'd have known that already.
> 
> And that actually is quite important, because I don't have to remember every
> single PM-related change we're making in the PCI layer.  I _incidentally_ do
> remember this one, but that may not happen next time.  Please do the research
> _before_ proposing changes of this kind.

Sorry.  I should have done more research before sending the patch out.
Will do more research next time.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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