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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think what we should do instead is this:
>  1) Add suspend/resume ops instead of going through stop/start and all
>    the deconfiguration / reconfiguration (of course keep all the
>    previous logic for drivers that don't implement suspend.)
>
>  2) Implement more iterators / accessors to allow drivers to get access
>    to more information. Some of that might not be necessary since at
>    resume in some cases the device might just go and request a restart,
>    but in other cases this might be necessary to simplify/avoid book-
>    keeping in drivers.
>
> Adding such APIs would allow drivers to be more in control of what
> happens at suspend, which given the complexity of how this might work,
> with configuring the driver etc.
>
> Thoughts?
>
i agree.
new suspend/resume ops sounds like the right thing to do.
i'm not sure why i didn't add them in the first place. :)

Eliad.
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