Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:19:14 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
       David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression
Message-ID: <20070127171914.GC3942@ucw.cz>
References: <20061219185223.GA13256@srcf.ucam.org> <200612201318.06976.david-b@pacbell.net> <20061221012924.GC32625@srcf.ucam.org> <200612201904.28681.david-b@pacbell.net> <20061221040648.GA1499@srcf.ucam.org> <20070125050009.GA8672@srcf.ucam.org> <20070126115905.66940ac9.akpm@osdl.org>
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Hi!

> > This patch allows the bus driver to check whether a specific driver 
> > requires the split. If not, the 2.6.18 functionality is restored. It 
> > also alters feature-removals.txt to note that the deprecated 
> > functionality should not be removed until a replacement actually exists.
> 
> That sounds like material for 2.6.20 as well as for 2.6.19.x.

No. It re-enbles mechanism that never worked properly and that is
known to oops the kernels.
							Pavel
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