On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:44:33PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> > > Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > > These functions help restore the driver to active configuration when 
> > > > coming out of resume for
> > > power management.
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't this problem be fixed in the PCI layer of Linux?
> > > 
> > > PS: CC'ed maintainer of Linux PCI core
> >
> > I recently saw some patches for pci express go by that may actually fix 
> > this issue, but until then, this fix in the driver gets us most of the way 
> > there.  When the subsystem is fixed, we can decide if this code is 
> > superfluous and remove it.
> 
> Agreed. 
> 
> I just wanted to point out the need for such functions to the 
> PCI maintainer and either get a "Use function foo() for this!", 
> "I have feature $BAR in my queue for this." or "Not yet implemented!". 
> 
> Finally I have no objections to fixing the issue in the driver 
> until the PCI layer of Linux offers this functionality itself.

How about someone submitting some patches to the pci core to provide
this functionality, as it is obviously needed :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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