Re: Calling suspend() in halt/restart/shutdown -> not a good idea

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >>I'd like to get rid of shutdown callback. Having two copies of code
> >>(one in callback, one in suspend) is ugly.
> >
> >Well, it's obviously not a good time for this. First, suspend and
> >shutdown don't necessarily do the same thing, then it just doesn't  
> >work
> >in practice. So either do it right completely or not at all, but  
> >2.6.13
> >isn't the place for an half-assed hack that looks like a solution to
> >you.
> 
> One possible way to proceed might be to add a new callback that takes a
> pm_message_t: powerdown()  If it exists, it would be called in both the
> suspend and shutdown paths, before the suspend() and shutdown() calls to
> that driver are made.  As drivers are fixed to clean up and combine

No; please don't make driver model more complex than it already is.
								Pavel
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