Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: The evilness of struct usb_device->auto_pm

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On Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:59, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 27 September 2007 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > On Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:37, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag 27 September 2007 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > > > > But there's a problem, in that the resume methods don't take a message 
> > > > > parameter.  So they wouldn't know whether they were doing a runtime 
> > > > > resume or a system resume.
> > > > 
> > > > This is a general problem with the .resume() routines.
> > > > 
> > > > If you want to use one for runtime resume, the driver needs to preserve
> > > > information allowing it to figure out what kind of resume is going to happen.
> > > 
> > > How? Suppose you
> > > 
> > > 1) runtime suspend
> > > 2) whole system suspend
> > > 3) whole system resume
> > > 
> > > What kind of resume do you do?
> > 
> > System resume, I'd guess.
> 
> How do you know unless resume() tells you to do so?
> 
> > Anyway, if we are going to stop using the freezer during suspend, the locking
> > requirements will probably have to unified between the runtime and system
> > suspend.
> 
> Even so, eg. for storage devices you should unquiesce them in case of runtime
> suspend, which makes no sense otherwise.

OK

What exactly would you like to do?

Greetings,
Rafael

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