Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:16:26 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage |
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:27 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > Why do you insist on maintaining the wrong initialization order > > on resume? When I raised the issue, Len brought up that the resume > > order did not match spec, but then there has been slow progress > > in fixing it (it's buried in -mm tree). > > It's not getting merged, SINCE IT DOESN'T WORK. It causes all sorts of > problems, because ACPI requires all kinds of things to be up and running > in order to actually work, and that in turn breaks all the devices that > have different ordering constraints. > > ACPI is a piece of sh*t. It asks the OS to do impossible things, like > running it early in the config sequence when it then at the same time > wants to depend on stuff that are there *late* in the sequence. It's not > the first time this insane situation has happened, either.
You will find no argument from me with that statement.
> But we'll try to merge the patch that totally switches around the whole > initialization order hopefully early after 2.6.20. But no way in hell do > we do it now, and I personally suspect we'll end reverting it when we do > try it just because it will probably break other things. But we'll see. > > In the meantime, sky2 doesn't work with MSI
On one and only one platform. It works fine on others. Don't blame the driver, stop it in PCI.
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