Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix runtime device suspend/resumre interface

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 13:32:20 EST


On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:55:34PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Here is an updated version of the patches to fix the sysfs interface for
> runtime device power management by restoring the file to its originally
> designed behavior - to place devices in the power state specified by the
> user process writing to the file.
>
> Recently, the interface was changed to filter out values to prevent a
> BUG() that was introduced in the PCI power management code. While a valid
> fix, it makes the driver core filter values that might otherwise be used
> by the bus/device drivers.

Are there any existing bus/device drivers that are currently broken
because of this change?

thanks,

greg k-h
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