[RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Aug 1 02:19:54 EST 2012
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:26:07PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > This is framework code - it doesn't have much option. Disabling HOTPLUG
> > > is totally reasonable on space constrained systems, there's no reason
> > > for the code to break things for people.
>
> > Still if you use this code and disable HOTPLUG, then you shouldn't be
> > using modules either. I mean there is no way you can write a driver that
>
> Of course.
>
> > can gracefully handle its platform data being discarded.
>
> Sure there is - take a copy of the platform data in probe().
Ick ick ick, devdata needs to die as it's pretty much pointless these
days.
It's on my TODO list actually...
greg k-h
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