On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT), > Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Still, I suppose it would be best to add a "move device A to the end of > > the dpm_active list" routine for use in this sort of situation. This > > should be easy to do. > > Would it make sense if device_move() moved the new parent (and its > parents) after the device in the dpm_active list automatically? Then we > would only have to worry about reordering manually in very special > cases. As it stands right now, every place device_move() gets called is already special! I'm afraid of reordering devices automatically; there's too much potential for creating new problems. When a driver calls device_move() or does something similar, it should know what sort of list rearrangement is safe. But the PM core can't be expected to know. Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
