Re: pmdisk suspend patch

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 19:13, Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:35:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
>   Benjamin> I agree that it would be nice to be able to resume only
>   Benjamin> one "branch" of the PM tree like that, it's just not
>   Benjamin> possible at this point.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> My understanding was that although it is a specific device that is
> being resumed, actual resume method is for the bus and that should
> power up the whole IDE subsystem. Am I wrong?

No. The bus "type" handler gets the resume and passes it along to the
device straight. You really need to walk the PM tree and wake up all
parents first, starting from the top of tree.

> I see that there is dependency branch information in
> dpm_active/dpm_off/dpm_off_irq. Isn't it possible to traverse these
> lists and power up parents for a device? What are the issues involved?
> 
> Cheers,
> Giri
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