Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:50:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] PM updates for 2.6.33 |
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On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Multi-function PCI devices commonly share registers - they're on the same > > chip, after all. And even when the _hardware_ is totally independent, we > > often have discovery rules and want to initialize in order because different > > drivers will do things like unregister entirely on suspend, and then > > re-register on resume. > > Do any of the PCI drivers do that?
It used to be common at least for ethernet - there were a number of drivers that essentially did the same thing on suspend/resume and on module unload/reload.
The point is, I don't know. And neither do you. It's much safer to just do drivers one by one, and not touch drivers that people don't test.
Linus
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