Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 03:42 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:57:49AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> The PCI layer is able to deal with drivers that have no PM methods in 
> the most simple case.

Yeah. I suppose we could use a pm_safe bit flag in struct device_driver
and/or struct pci_driver. I have other things to do right now, but will
seek to understand the relationship between those structs better later.

Regards,

Nigel

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