On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:50:26AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Greg:
> > 
> > I'm not sure at this point whether you would like to me resend the revised 
> > usbcore patches in the "leading toward autosuspend" series.
> > 
> > I sent in a group of seven patches on June 19, of which you have applied 
> > two.  Unfortunately I didn't think to put sequence numbers in the Subject 
> > lines, so the ordering of the patches is not be readily apparent.
> 
> I held off on the others as I didn't think they were a "bugfix only"
> type of thing.  But they are still in my queue.  Do you think they
> should go in for 2.6.18 under "this is a bugfix" critera?

No.  They should stay in -mm and go via the usual route.

> > In addition I've got twelve more written -- and that's all just to
> > rearrange and clean up the current code, not to start adding autosuspend!
> > 
> > Of the patches sent in last week, here are the ones not yet applied (in 
> > order):
> > 
> >     as723   usbfs: add private mutex for open/release/remove
> >     as711b  devio.c: detect device unregistration from usbfs
> >     as712b  usb-skeleton: add private mutex for disconnect/IO
> >     as715b  rename usb_suspend_device to usb_port_suspend
> >     as713b  move code between source files
> 
> Yup, still have them.  I'll add them to my tree in the next day or so
> and get some testing in -mm for them, for 2.6.19.  Is that ok?

Fine.

> > The not-yet-submitted patches do things like:
> > 
> >     adjust return values (< 0 for error, 0 for no error),
> >     clear PORT_C_SUSPEND status following a resume,
> >     add struct usb_device_driver and convert usb_generic over,
> >     split up suspend/resume for devices and for interfaces,
> >     remove recursion from hub_resume (don't resume the hub's children),
> >     always suspend/resume a device and its interfaces together,
> >     several sorts of miscellaneous cleanups,
> >     add "suspended" attribute file for use when .../power/state
> >             goes away.
> > 
> > How would you like to handle this?  Hold back for a while so you can 
> > absorb what I've already sent?  Resend with sequence numbers in the 
> > Subject lines?  Start sending the not-yet-submitted patches?
> 
> Sequence numbers is _always_ a good thing if you want me to apply a
> specific patch before another one, as mail systems reorder stuff all the
> time.
> 
> And sure, send them on, I'll take them and we can test them out in -mm
> :)

Okay, will do.

Alan Stern


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