Re: dpm_runtime_suspend and _resume()

From: Patrick Mochel
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 18:50:12 EST



On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> dpm_runtime_suspend and _resume() would be quite useful for some PCMCIA
> tasks. However, they are only exported in drivers/base/power/power.h. Any
> objection to moving it to include/linux/pm.h ? Any plans to break the
> functionality these functions provide?

Break them anymore than they currently are?

I wouldn't recommend using those functions. We're in the process of
redeveloping the Runtime PM infrastructure and would hate to break users
of existing poorly-designed infrastructure in the process.

I'm curious what your usage model would be. After a certain amount of
time of inactivity, I suspect that you want to power down a PCMCIA slot,
right? Do you already have patches that do that? Is there any problem with
calling the necessary functions directly?

Thanks,


Pat
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