From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device()
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:57:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080324155735.GA4069@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803232028.25611.rjw@sisk.pl>
Hi!
> After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device
> semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from
> concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be
> too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but
> before it happened, we had introduced the functions
> device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow
> drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some
> drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary,
> it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the
> normal device unregistration instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
ACK.
Pavel
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2008-03-23 19:28 Rafael J. Wysocki
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