Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 2)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 16:42:20 EST


On Tuesday, 25 of March 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 15:33:22 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > > so I'd say a
> > > failure to resume is just a limited subcase of a device vanishing during
> > > sleep.
> >
> > I'll go along with that.  If a device vanishes during sleep, the PM
> > core isn't responsible for unregistering it -- the device's subsystem
> > is.
>
> Yes, that makes sense. You are right.

Still, if ->resume() returns an error, does it make sense, from the PM core's
point of view, to execute ->complete() for that device, for example?

If you think it does, that behavior should be clearly documented (I didn't
think about that before).

Thanks,
Rafael
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