From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752823AbaCJAlF (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:41:05 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:37334 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751981AbaCJAlD (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:41:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:41:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20140309.204101.47552917508273123.davem@davemloft.net> To: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com Cc: rob@landley.net, andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <531D094C.1090205@gmail.com> References: <531CF864.9040406@gmail.com> <20140309.203001.1318893833441564547.davem@davemloft.net> <531D094C.1090205@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sebastian Hesselbarth Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:37:32 +0100 > The mechanism is manual, no automatic way to determine it. We recognize BIOS and ACPI bugs and work around them, by looking at version information and whatnot, so you really can't convince me that something similar can't be done here perhaps in the platform code.