Re: [PATCH] jme: remove the jme driver as it is no longer maintained

[Diego Viola]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:45 AM, One Thousand Gnomes
> <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I would appreciate some hint from someone who is more experienced with drivers.
>>
>> Start by testing
>>
>> - loading the driver as a module
>> - using the networking
>> - unloading the module (and checking it stays unloaded!)
>>
>> then suspend/resume
>>
>> If that works then you have a good starting point because you know a
>> sequence of actions that suspends properly. If it fails then it's going
>> to be rather more fun because it implies something in the hardware has
>> not been properly shut down.
>>
>> Alan
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your email, did you see my bug report? Because I tried all
> this already.
>
> The only workarounds I've found to work is one of these:
>
> $ rmmod jme # before suspend
>
> or
>
> $ ip link set ens34 down
>
> or
>
> $ echo 0 > /sys/power/pm_async # disable async power management
>
> Then resume works fine (I can't reproduce the hang).
>
> I'm not a C developer nor a kernel developer, I tried looking at the
> jme.c driver code but it's not clear what is broken and what needs
> fixing, so I would appreciate someone more experienced looking at the
> issue and giving me an idea or two.
>
> Thanks,
> Diego

Please disregard this patch, I feel like an idiot for sending it.

I've found a fix already and sent a patch.

Diego