Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> Is there some reason why we can't have the OS just do the D3
> transition for all drivers that register support?  I mean, this power
> management using D states is actually driver *independent* and at
> least way back in the day was supposed to be implemented for "OS power
> management"

all you need to do is 1 function call from your interface down code.. so
it's really not a big deal to just do that call ;)
(well and you want the D0 call in the up code, but that's ok)

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