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    SubjectRe: NAK new drivers without proper power management?
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    Hi.

    On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 23:44 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
    > On Friday, 9 February 2007 23:26, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
    > > Hi.
    > >
    > > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 23:17 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > > > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 08:57 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
    > > > > Hi.
    > > > >
    > > > > I don't think this is already done (feel free to correct me if I'm
    > > > > wrong)..
    > > > >
    > > > > Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management
    > > > > implemented? There really is no excuse for writing a new driver and not
    > > > > putting .suspend and .resume methods in anymore, is there?
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > to a large degree, a device driver that doesn't suspend is better than
    > > > no device driver at all, right?
    > >
    > > I'm not sure it is. It only makes more work for everyone else: We have
    > > to help people figure out what causes their computer to fail to resume
    > > (which can take quite a while), then get them them complain to driver
    > > author, and the driver author has to submit patches to fix it.
    > >
    > > All of this is avoided if they'll just do it right in the first place.
    > >
    > > > now.. if you want to make the core warn about it, that's very fair
    > >
    > > That's probably a good idea too, since I'm only suggesting this for new
    > > drivers.
    >
    > I think if CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is set, the core should warn about drivers not
    > having .suspend or .resume routines.

    The only problem with that is, not everyone turns on CONFIG_PM_DEBUG.
    CONFIG_PM instead?

    Regards,

    Nigel

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