Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 6)

[Pavel Machek]

> On Sunday, 30 of March 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday, 29 of March 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Introduce 'struct pm_ops' and 'struct pm_ext_ops' representing
> > > suspend and hibernation operations for bus types, device classes and
> > > device types.
> > > 
> > > Modify the PM core to use 'struct pm_ops' and 'struct pm_ext_ops'
> > > objects, if defined, instead of the ->suspend() and ->resume() or,
> > > respectively, ->suspend_late() and ->resume_early() callbacks that
> > > will be considered as legacy and gradually phased out.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I forgot to set dev->power.status to DPM_PREPARING before
> > calling ->prepare(), as documented.  Also, dpm_prepare() could cleaned up
> > a bit.
> > 
> > Fixed patch follows.
> 
> My testing shows that some drivers tend to return error codes from their
> ->resume() callbacks, even though the devices in question appear to work
> correctly after the seemingly failing suspend.

The drivers should be fixed not to do that, no?

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