Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265200AbTIIXQZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:16:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265206AbTIIXQZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:16:25 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:2441 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265200AbTIIXQY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:16:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you? From: Alan Cox To: Patrick Mochel Cc: Pavel Machek , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1063149303.31269.30.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-5) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:15:04 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 18 On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 00:07, Patrick Mochel wrote: > What about suspend-to-ram, APM, and runtime states? > > That actually makes it quite a bit more complicated, globally. By forcing > the policy down to the drivers, you force each one to interpret the value > themselves and make the decision. By doing it centrally, the only thing > the low-level drivers have to worry about is going into the state. APM and ACPI suspend/resume (especially resume) are different. Very different with some hardware in fact. For IDE to be done perfectly you want to know if its ACPI S4 or APM suspend. The driver needs to be able to get the actual aim but most I agree wont care which. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/