Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 08:58, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Yes, I think that devices that failed to resume (and all their children)
> have to be moved by the core resume function into a separate list and
> then destroyed (again by the driver core). For that we might need to add
> bus_type->remove_device() handler as it seems that all buses do alot
> of work outside of driver->remove handlers. The remove_device should
> accept additional argument - something like dead_device that would
> suggest that driver should not be alarmed by any errors during unbind/
> removal process as the device (or rather usually its parent) is simply
> not there anynore.

They already do... think USB...

It's really only a locking problem within the PM core, that's getting
OT at the moment. I'll see if I can come up with something later.

Ben.


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