Re: [PATCH -mm 6/7] PM: Remove power_state.event checks from suspend core code

From: David Brownell
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 10:28:26 EST


On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> The suspend routines should be called for every device during a system sleep
> transition, regardless of the device's state, so that drivers can regard these
> method calls as notifications that the system is about to go to sleep, rather
> than as directives to put their devices into the 'off' state.

Did you audit all the drivers to make sure this won't break things?
Like for example through inappropriate pci_save_state() calls?

I'd really expect this patch would break things...
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