Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed May 05 2010 - 14:40:08 EST


On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:33:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> We seem to have ended up managing most of our PM infrastructure
> iteratively. If the concern is more about best practices than intrinsic
> incompatibilities, I'd lean towards us being better off merging this now
> and then working things out over the next few releases as we get a
> better understanding of the implications. The main thing that we have to
> get right in the short term is the userspace API - everything else is
> easier to fix up as we go along.

Right, the big issue for me is that there's likely to be some form of
userspace API visible for controlling this. I think I can keep it
mostly in-kernel for audio (by providing new APIs to mark some inputs
and outputs as being live during suspend) but need to check.
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