Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 2010 13:07:56 -0700 | From | mark gross <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [patch] complain when users abuse the pm_qos API |
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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:03:18AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On 30/05/10 06:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >On Saturday 29 May 2010, mark gross wrote: > >>The following patch is to help clean up API abusers of pm_qos where > >>they call update_request before registering a request. > >> > >>--mgross > >> > >>--Signed-off-by: markgross<markgross@thegnar.org> > > > >Will there be a big issue if I push this during the next merge window? > > What's the point to the patch? That is: why is calling > update_request before registering a request such a big problem that > it demands a WARN() and dump stack?
If e1000e realy needs the latency set and makes assumptions that its done its part, I would like to let them know that they have not registerd the request they thought they did.
--mgross
> > Regards, > > Nigel
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