Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >> > Neither am I. I'm just asking that new drivers have power management as
> >> > standard.
> >
> >> What if the hardware doesn't support power management ?
> >
> >You would still want to do the cleanup and configuration that you'd do
> >for module load/unload.
> >
> 
> By adding dummy functions, wouldn't that just look awkward ?

No, it is not by dummy functions. Checkout how swsusp works; it needs
no hw support, still it needs driver support.

									Pavel
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