Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Make radeonfb use PCI PM core for suspendigdevice (was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] PCI PM: Be extra careful when changing powerstates of devices)

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Mar 22 2009 - 20:12:45 EST


On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:08 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > The story in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12846 shows
> > that setting the power state of a PCI device by
> > pci_raw_set_power_state() may sometimes fail. For this reason,
> > pci_raw_set_power_state() should not assume that the power state of
> > the device has actually changed after writing into its PMCSR.
> > Instead, it should read the value from there and use it to update
> > dev->current_state. It also is useful to print a warning if the
> > device's power state hasn't changed as expected.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> OK, since the Ben's radeonfb fix for bug #12846 has been merged, I'd like
> to do something a bit different.
>
> Patch 1/2 introduces __pci_set_power_state() that will allow the radeonfb
> driver not to open code PCI PM operations.
>
> Patch 2/2 makes the driver use __pci_set_power_state().
>
> Comments welcome.

No objection.

Ben.


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