Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:52:14 +0100 | From | Tilman Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management? |
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Am 10.02.2007 07:43 schrieb Willy Tarreau: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:25:34PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 08:57 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>>>> Can we start to NAK new drivers that don't have proper power management >>>>> implemented? [...] >> Certainly we should ask for it, but it shouldn't be a merge-stopper. > > I think we should even proceed in the opposite direction : refuse to suspend > if at least one driver does not support the feature, and enumerate the > faulty drivers on the console. While I agree that a machine which resumes > in a bad state is not funny at all to debug, at least when the user expects > his notebook to suspend and sees that it refuses, he can complain about the > drivers which do not support it, and can even unload them first if unneeded.
I agree wholeheartedly. That's the correct way to handle this.
-- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany - In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
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