Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 8) | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:11:29 +1000 |
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Hi Rafael etc.
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:47 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Well, I'm not sure and I'm not going to introduce the change right now, after > > the paches have been included in -mm. > > > > That would require quite some changes in the core code that I'd prefer to > > avoid for now. We can do something like this in a separate patch series after > > the present one settles down a bit. > > I disagree. > > Doing it later would introduce yet another major semantic change. > > I think we should get it right now. There's no hurry in pushing things > especially if they aren't quite right. > > The ability for prepare() callbacks to sync with userland, > request_firmware, etc... is an important feature that's been needed for > some time imho. > > Ben.
I agree. These calls have already been changing far too often in mainline. I know it's all been necessary but please, can we try to make one set of changes and just get it right this time?
Regards,
Nigel
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