Re: Resume enhancement: restore pci config space

[Pavel Machek]

Ahoj!

> > > [1  <text/plain (quoted-printable)>]
> > > 
> > > > int xxx_resume(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > > > {
> > > > 	int err;
> > > > 	if ((err = pci_default_resume(dev)) < 0)
> > > > 		return err;
> > > > 	// ... do h/w specific
> > > > }
> > > 
> > > well define "h/w specific", just give me an example of a real (alsa?)
> > > driver that would use it (or point me to one) so that I can see if this
> > > is the best API, what the return value should be etc etc 
> > 
> > I'm afraid the ALSA drivers aren't be the best examples :)
> > It doesn't handle the error in suspend/resume at all.
> 
> hm it looks like all this would gain is that instead of 2 or 3 function calls
> you need to do one which then calls those 3. The *driver* already knows if
> it needs busmaster or not etc, so when I wrote this code I felt that the
> driver could do a better job really. But well if you think it's worth it to
> save those 3 lines into 1 ?

I'd prefer one line, same in all alsa drivers, than each driver trying
to be clever.

[It seems to me like ALSA can't easily put NULL into suspend/resume
fields, because they have additional layer of abstraction between them
and kernel.]
								Pavel
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