Re: [linux-pm] Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Pavel> Hi!  Two Long time ago, BenH said that making patches is easy,
> > Pavel> so I hope to get his help now... And will probably need more.
> > 
> > Pavel> Suspend routines change, slowly.
> > 
> > Pavel> - int (*suspend)(struct device * dev, u32 state); + int
> > Pavel> (*suspend)(struct device * dev, pm_message_t state);
> > 
> > Pavel> For now u32 is typedef-ed to pm_message_t, but that is not
> > Pavel> going to be the case for 2.6.12. What needs to be done is
> > Pavel> changing all state parameters from u32 to
> > Pavel> pm_message_t. suspend() functions should not use state variable
> > Pavel> for now (except for PCI ones, those are allowed to call
> > Pavel> pci_choose_state and convert state into pci_power_t, and use
> > Pavel> that).
> > 
> > Sorry for being late responding to this, but I'd say this is a prime
> > example for typedef's considered evil (see Greg's OLS talk ;).
> > 
> > It would be a lot cleaner if it was made a struct and then passing a
> > struct pointer as the argument instead of passing the struct by value
> > as you do right now.
> 
> Sorry, can't do that. That would require flag day and change
> everything at once. That is just not feasible. When things are
> settled, it is okay to change it to struct passed by value.. It is
> small anyway and at least we will not have problems with freeing it
> etc.

Well, we could switch to passing struct by reference

(typedef struct pm_message *pm_message_t)

, but AFAICS it would only bring us problems with lifetime rules
etc. Lets not do it.
								Pavel

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