Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945946AbXBIAxW (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:53:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945952AbXBIAxW (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:53:22 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:49438 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945946AbXBIAxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:53:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:52:11 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev Subject: Re: Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device Message-ID: <20070209005211.GD30794@kroah.com> References: <200702080400.l1840lFd002314@hera.kernel.org> <45CB1AE6.9020707@garzik.org> <20070208074130.29df585f@oldman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208074130.29df585f@oldman> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1525 Lines: 34 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:41:30AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:43:18 -0500 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 > > > Commit: 43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278 > > > Parent: 2943ecf2ed32632473c06f1975db47a7aa98c10f > > > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > AuthorDate: Tue Apr 9 12:14:34 2002 -0700 > > > Committer: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > CommitDate: Wed Feb 7 10:37:11 2007 -0800 > > > > > > Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device > > > > > > This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume > > > issues, if it wants to. > > It fixes a non-problem. I would like to see the network core suspend/resume > proposal as well. Last time I examined doing network core suspend help, > the problem was that the physical device suspend was called before the > class device. It is not clear how this change would help. Now the real device of the network device (ethX and such) will be called first. If not, something's wrong... thanks, greg k-h - 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/