Re: revert yenta free_irq on suspend

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 03:56:02 EST


On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:03 -0400, ambx1@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Also, as I said earlier, the better we support OSPM initiated power
> management, the more likely APM will break. This may be technically
> unavoidable on some isolated boxes without quirks. I agree with
> Pavel that "do nothing" may make sense, but it seems some devices
> may still need to be disabled by the OS. As a real world example,
> we currently can't turn off cardbus bridges because it breaks APM
> on a couple of older laptops.

Won't freeing of IRQs cause problems with things like handhelds that
actually rely on an interrupt to wake up ?

Ben.


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