On Friday 30 October 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > And partly exactly _because_ even Cardbus is starting to be "legacy", I'd > > personally prefer to try to simplify the model to the point where we don't > > have to think about all the subtle interactions. Just making suspend act > > as an eject would mean that we'd never have to worry about how the CardBus > > bridge interacts with the PCI layer at suspend/resume time. > > Put another way: five years ago I would have felt that it could be > important that people can suspend and resume while they have a CD-ROM > mounted through a PCMCIA IDE card. Or something like that where you want > to keep session information. > > These days, that scenario is less interesting to begin with, and we're > generally better at some of the hotplug issues anyway. Example: one of the > reasons I used to like not causing an unplug event was because I had > network cards, and hated setting up the connection again. These days, all > distros come with networkmanager or similar, and hotplug networking just > works (even if the "CD-ROM mounted" case probably still would cause > problems). > > So I think we used to have good reasons to try to maintain state over a > suspend event, but many of those reasons have become weaker, while at the > same time USB has meant that PCMCIA itself has become more of a > "maintenance burden" rather than a "primary subsystem".
I agree. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
