On Thursday 22 December 2005 22:49, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Alan Stern wrote: > > > I'm not so sure this approach really qualifies as a "hack". If a driver > > doesn't have explicit support for suspend/resume, the best way to quiesce > > it is to unbind it. The only alternative is to fail all of its I/O > > requests, which seems much less reliable. > > Hmm, the best way to queisce it seems to be to fix the driver. Sure, that > doesn't solve your problems now, but that is the ideal solution, no? Until > then, band-aids like unbinding the device from the driver is only a remedy > to a symptom; not a cure.. > Quite often unbinding is easiest and also correct way. I would love to be able to just unbind serio port/input device and have it recreated later. Unfortunately X/GPM do not [yet?] support hotplugging of devices so kernel has to compensate. -- Dmitry
