On Sun 2009-04-19 00:44:57, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday 18 April 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Russell King wrote: > > > > > > What I need to be able to do is to suspend most devices on the host side > > > which may involve talking to a separate microcontroller via I2C to shut > > > down power to peripherals. > > > > I suspect that for cases like this, the simplest thing to do is to just > > add a marker for "don't mess with my power management, I'm doing > > everything through sysdev" for the specified devices. > > In this particular case, if sysdev was used, there would be no problem, but the > platform uses a platform device to suspend-resume the i2c controller. > In principle we could convert it to use a sysdev, but that would be more > difficult than the last patch I sent IMO (at least to me). > > Also, apparently it is not the only platform doing it. OTOH... if the device is needed in late phases of sleep, sysdev *does* sound like a way to go. So it would be nice to convert those devices to sysdevs one day..... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
