Hi!
> > > the patch appended
> > > here shows what I'm pursuing. Same calling convention, new PRETHAW message
> > > that "pm-naive" drivers (most of them!) can handle just like FREEZE.
> > >
> > > Other than this, it affects about 20 files with about 2/3 being drivers; say
> > > that maybe 5% of all in-tree drivers needed trivial changes, most of which
> > > could count as bugfixes _before_ defining the new message.
> >
> > Okay, so you changed the interface, and it needed fixing at 16 places.
>
> Not what I said ... in many of those places, the driver code was already dubious.
> Making the event code __bitwise would have helped catch those errors.
Yep, __bitwise (+ someone using sparse :-) would be nice.
> > > + * PRETHAW Quiesce as if for FREEZE; additionally, prepare for restoring
> > > + * the system from a snapshot taken after an earlier FREEZE.
> > > + * Some drivers will need to reset their hardware state instead
> > > + * of preserving it, to ensure that it's never mistaken for the
> > > + * state which that earlier snapshot had set up.
> >
> > And you *do* realize that PRETHAW is like a FREEZE... So... can we use
> > FREEZE, and add aditional flag field that says it is preTHAW?
>
> Of course, FREEZE is like a SUSPEND, and SUSPEND is the only behavior that's
> required of all drivers, or which most drivers understand. So why did you not
> implement FREEZE as a flag in the first place, if you like that model? :)
>
> Most drivers treat all suspend() messages as SUSPEND anyway; mesg.event was
> already little more than a fancy flag (SUSPEND vs FREEZE). We only need
> three transition types (so far), not four (flag x flag ==> 4 states).
Okay, I still don't 100% like it, but it makes some sense and I think
we can live with PREFREEZE.
> > This will result in if (message == FREEZE || message == PRETHAW) that
> > is kind-of ugly.
>
> switch (mesg.event) { ... } for the few drivers that actually care about
> more than one of the transitions. Only a handful need to care about more
> than whether it's a real SUSPEND or not.
Okay, you are right that suspend and freeze are similar, too. Can you
retransmit the patch?
Pavel
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