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SubjectRe: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH] PM: Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacks (rev. 2)
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 15:19:45 schrieb Alan Stern:

> > It's not safe for the PM core to do such things unilaterally.  The
> > decision to unregister a device should be made by the driver or the
> > subsystem.
>
> Why? You can trigger it from user space via sysfs

How can you do that?

> and in many cases
> suspending to disk will disconnect all devices on a bus,

But these disconnects aren't done by the PM core; they are done by
individual drivers or subsystems.

> so I'd say a
> failure to resume is just a limited subcase of a device vanishing during
> sleep.

I'll go along with that. If a device vanishes during sleep, the PM
core isn't responsible for unregistering it -- the device's subsystem
is.

Alan Stern

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