Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:49:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Plan to get rid of all legacy PM handling |
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a plan to replace all of the legacy device PM callbacks throughout > the kernel with PM handling based on struct dev_pm_ops objects. Ultimately, > that should make it possible to remove the legacy hooks from struct bus_type > and struct device_driver and to siplify the PM core and some bus types > (most importantly PCI) quite a bit. > > I'm going to start with platform drivers that should be the most > straightforward to convert and when they all have been dealt with it > should be possible to drop the platform bus type's PM callbacks entirely. > Next, I'm going to take care of the bus types that only define PM callbacks > to call drivers' callbacks, which is completely unnecessary after some PM > core changes that went in during the 3.4 development cycle. Finally, I will > be looking at PCI drivers. > > The task is huge, but I've done similar things already, so it's nothing new > to me. So, if you're a maintainer of code that contains legacy PM handling, > please be prepared to see some patches from me in a not-too-distant-future.
Nice, that work is great to see have happen, thanks for taking this on, it's much needed.
greg k-h
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