On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 28 March 2005 9:44 am, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> > How is this related to (8) above? Do you need some sort of protected,
> > short path through the core to add the device, but not bind it or add it
> > to the PM core?
>
> Erm, why is there a distinction between "adding device" and "adding it
> to the PM core"? That's a conceptual problem right there. There
> should be no distinctio. (But it does make eminent sense to be able
> to add a device without necessarily binding it to a driver, since
> the "unbound driver" state is all over the place.)
Don't get too excited; there is no distinction.
He seemed to imply that it would be useful for interfaces to be added
without having the possibility of being suspended until all the interfaces
of a device were added. I'm simply trying to understand what he thinks is
necessary.
Pat
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