On Friday, March 11, 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:29:24PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > I thought about two different possible ways forward:
> >
> > (1) Push [1/2] and the patches converting things that x86 depends on first,
> > followed perhaps by a patch introducing something like
> > CONFIG_ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS that would simply disable
> > sysdev_{suspend|resume|shutdown}() (x86 would set it). The other arches
> > might then be converted over time.
> >
> > (2) Prepare patches converting everything that can be converted in the tree
> > and push them all in one shot.
> >
> > The advantage of (1) is that we can start making changes RSN and the
> > advantage of (2) seems to be that we may avoid some potential suspend/resume
> > ordering issues on non-x86 architectures that may arise in principle if some
> > subsystems are converted to using struct syscore_ops while the others are
> > not (syscore_suspend() is executed after sysdev_suspend(), so if we move
> > something from the latter to the former, it may end up being executed after
> > things that it was executed before previously).
> >
> > Please let me know what your opinion is.
>
> Hm, I would prefer (1) as that lets us get this moving sooner, and "flag
> days" are never good to have. If there are problems that arise because
> of it, as you have noted, it will be simple just to convert the parts
> that were using the "old" methods to the new ones to fix the issue,
> right?
Yes, I agree.
Thanks,
Rafael
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