Re: [REGRESION] Suspend hangs with 3.6-rc1 on Lenovo T60 notebook

From: Alan Stern
Date: Fri Aug 17 2012 - 10:27:21 EST


On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Alan Stern wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
> > No my patch was a hack to undo the results of the commit causing
> > the regression in the IDE case. But Alan's approach clearly is
> > much better! Once we are sure drvdata is not used anywhere the
> > dev_set_drvdata call could be removed in the place where my
> > hack added a second call to it. Note that there are likely
> > actual ide drivers using it, without setting it themselves since
> > the ide core was setting it. So removing it will require even more
> > auditing / checking.
>
> I did search for dev_get_drvdata() calls in drivers/ide; there were no
> other calls that retrieved an ide_drive_t value. But I didn't check
> anywhere else in the kernel. In fact, I'm not sure where else to look.

After a little more checking: Among all the .c files in the kernel
which match the pattern '[^a-z]ide_', the only occurrences of
dev_get_drvdata() which retrieve an ide_drive_t value are the two in
ide-pm.c.

Alan Stern

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