From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -tip][RFC] serial8250: update to dev_pm_ops
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:38:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907270038.26549.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907262252.41429.elendil@planet.nl>
On Sunday 26 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 26 July 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > In fact, I wouldn't advise anyone to do these conversions mechanically.
>
> With hindsight I'd say you are correct.
>
> In that case would it maybe have been better to have a build time warning
> about the need to convert drivers rather than a run time one? Run time
> warnings have a much higher annoyance factor and will thus "invite" more
> people into having a shot at getting rid of them.
>
> But I guess partly it's also just the nature of this change: it looks
> trivial due to the corresponding terms.
Well, in fact the patch that added the warning wasn't mine. :-)
Anyway, the purpose was to get the attention of the people who maintain
those drivers mostly, AFAICS.
Best,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-26 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-01 6:37 [PATCH " Erik Ekman
2009-07-08 11:10 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-08 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-25 14:12 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-25 20:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-25 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 " Erik Ekman
2009-07-26 0:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-07-26 19:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-26 20:52 ` Frans Pop
2009-07-26 22:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2009-07-27 2:57 ` Magnus Damm
2009-08-03 10:42 ` Erik Ekman
2009-07-25 20:22 ` [PATCH " Frans Pop
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