On Friday 21 April 2006 8:27 am, David Brownell wrote: > And especially for PM, many driver writers are lazy. Let me update that. The issue is less that the driver writers are lazy, and more that the system PM infrastructure tends to not work well on PCs, given issues with BIOS/ACPI/... and the Linux code that talks to it. In my own case, I don't even own a PC any more where Linux PM will properly enter and exit (!!) true power-managed states like "standby" or "suspend-to-RAM". So there is very little point in putting effort into driver PM test/debug, beyond the basic test-through-sysfs stuff (which may not suffice to shake loose bugs in STR paths etc). On those rare platforms where Linux system infrastructure handles power sanely -- including letting drivers get information about the target system state, so suspend() can be smart enough -- the only real issue with PM is testing. And that's no harder than any other thing driver writers do; it can often be easier, in fact. - Dave
