Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Execute PCI quirks on resume from suspend-to-RAM

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> machines with the asus_hides_smbus "feature" have the problem
>> that the smbus is disabled again after suspend-to-RAM. This
>> causes all sorts of problems, the worst being a total fan
>> failure on my Samsung P35 notebook after STR and STD.
> 
> What happens if we disable hiding altogether? ASUS decided software
> should not see smbus, perhaps they had a reason?

IIRC this was introduced only to keep older ms-windows versions
from complaining about hardware for which no driver existed.
Newer ms-windows versions seem to unhide the smbus like we do.

> If we decide that we want to keep unhiding, redoing quirks after
> resume is probably neccessary...

Yes. Now the question is where exactly we want to execute these
quirks. Before or after restoring pci config space? If we do it
before restoring config space, it might cause some yet unknown
side effects. If we do it after restoring config space, it might
be worse because we would restore config space of a device not
existing anymore.

Thinking about it again, if we restored the full pci config space
on resume, this quirk handling would be completely unnecessary.
Any reasons why we don't do that?


>> References: Novell bugzilla #173420.
>>
>> This (totally ugly) patch fixes it.
>> Comments/criticism welcome.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@xxxxxxx>
> 

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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