Re: Fixing MTRR smp breakage and suspending sysdevs.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Oct 28 2004 - 14:46:19 EST


Hi!

> >> Is the problem MTRR resume must be with IRQ enabled, right? Could we
> >> implement a method sysdev resume with IRQ enabled? MTRR driver isn't
> >> the
> >
> >MTRR does not deserve to be sysdev. It is not essential for the
> >system, it only makes it slow.
> It's a CPU driver, cpufreq driver is the same.

Well, it drives part of cpu. Fortunately that part of cpu is not required for
other drivers. cpufreq definitely should not be sysdev. If mtrr is not needed for drivers (I think it is not), it should not be a sysdev.

Pavel

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