Re: Solving suspend-level confusion

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:31, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi again.
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:03, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > That's where the whole confusion is indeed... and why we need to make
> > that clear. The IDE driver will sleep the disk for 3 and keep it spinning
> > for 4
> 
> Okay. So that leaves me calling device_suspend(4) when I want to quiesce
> the driver but not spin down and device_suspend(3) when I want to power
> down. Does that sound right? It sounds hairy to me. (Do other drivers
> treat 3 and 4 in the same way?)

Well, or just continue using the PM_ constants and change them to 1,3,4
like I did. It's the simplest way at this point imho.

Ben.


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