Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751115AbVIZQtk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:49:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751118AbVIZQtk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:49:40 -0400 Received: from [85.21.88.2] ([85.21.88.2]:698 "HELO mail.dev.rtsoft.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751115AbVIZQtj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:49:39 -0400 Message-ID: <433826EE.9020107@rbcmail.ru> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:50:54 +0400 From: Vitaly Wool User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Brownell CC: vitalhome@rbcmail.ru, basicmark@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dpervushin@ru.mvista.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] SPI subsystem References: <20050910115434.32450.qmail@web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20050915001429.BC6E7EA55C@adsl-69-107-32-110.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20050915001429.BC6E7EA55C@adsl-69-107-32-110.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 23 Hi David, David Brownell wrote: >Most platform drivers I've seen just handle the power on/off >requests. I think there's some historical reason that the >"reason" stuff exists ... but I suspect not many folk would >get unhappy if that were removed, and those calls got simplified. > > No, I can't agree with you. This state machine provides useful framework for drivers that work with DMA and/or drivers that set their own wakeup bits etc. etc. It allows the driver essence to enter the state where it doesn't accept any new requests but is able to successfully finish the current ones. Best regards, Vitaly - 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/