Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754487AbXE1MIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 08:08:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751300AbXE1MHy (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 08:07:54 -0400 Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.134]:38897 "EHLO ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751201AbXE1MHy (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 08:07:54 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ In-Reply-To: <1180353701.4242.68.camel@lov.localdomain> References: <200705272229.21263.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070527220412.GC22687@srcf.ucam.org> <1180304166.3131.66.camel@lov.localdomain> <200705280943.54312.rjw@sisk.pl> <9D3FC259-8391-4C2F-9F0F-AEF6CB3030E8@cam.ac.uk> <1180343171.4242.15.camel@lov.localdomain> <5C7E12A9-DCEB-40AA-B3E6-4A54F4FE8047@cam.ac.uk> <1180353701.4242.68.camel@lov.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Matthew Garrett , pm list , LKML , Nigel Cunningham , Pavel Machek , Alan Stern , Rob Landley Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael-Luke Jones Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] PM: Disable _request_firmware before hibernation/suspend Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:07:51 +0100 To: Kay Sievers X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 22 On 28 May 2007, at 13:01, Kay Sievers wrote: > In our development model, users of an interface are expected to > improve > it, because nobody else really knows what's needed. That unfortunately > didn't happen so far. Thanks for responding :) The fact that no-one is told to use the new right way (tm) in any available documentation does not help matters improve. One issue is that the 'asynchronous' interface seems to rely on the same 'dodgy' timeout mechanism as the original request_firmware() call... Looks like the lack of a maintainer should be the opportunity for a rework of this API. Michael-Luke Jones - 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/