Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] get USB suspend to work again on 2.6.17-mm1

[David Brownell]

On Friday 23 June 2006 7:51 am, Alan Stern wrote:

> Ah, there's the rub.  If a driver doesn't have suspend/resume methods, is 
> it because it doesn't need them, or is it because nobody has written them 
> yet?  In the latter case, failing the suspend or unbinding the driver are 
> the only safe courses.

I think the former would ba a dangerous assumption ... in the category
of "intermittent bugs triggering later on" rather than "easily reproduced
bugs triggering right at the trouble spot" (like the latter).

- Dave
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