On Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:37, David Brownell wrote: > > > > IMO it can be done in two different ways: > > > 1) via a .suspend() argument > > > 2) via a global variable that the drivers can read. > > For sufficiently small values of "two" that is. > > Other solutions that have been described on the PM list include > > 3) Providing accessors to the information actually needed > in drivers ... e.g. say whether this clock or power domain > will be available in that target state.
Well, you need to store that information somewhere. The way in which it will be provided to drivers is a secondary thing. To me, the most important question is whether we want to pass that information as a .suspend() argument or in any different way, which involves the use of a global variable (or a set of variables) and that's 2). > 4) Act more like "current" ... there's a function returning > whatever "state" struct is settled on. (But ideally > without the pseudo-global.) How would you be going to arrange that in practice? > I'm amused that nobody really reacted to the technical comments in > my previous posts on this thread. That's unfortunate, since from > where I sit it feels to me like everyone else is a johnny-come-lately > on this issue, and is now grasping at the quickest and dirtiest ways > to work around the issue instead of coming to grasp with the various > underlying issues. > > IMO #3 is strongly preferable. Of course we can do that. At least I don't have any objections. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
