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Documentation: Ask driver writers to provide PM support

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Add a paragraph in Documentation/SubmittingDrivers requesting that the
basic PM support be provided by new device drivers.

Add two new documents in Documentation/power/ giving general instructions
on debugging the suspend/resume functionality and testing the suspend and
resume support in device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-08 00:24:07 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -87,6 +87,21 @@ Clarity: It helps if anyone can see how to fix the driver. It helps
driver that intentionally obfuscates how the hardware works
it will go in the bitbucket.
PM support: Since Linux is used on many portable and desktop systems, your
driver is likely to be used on such a system and therefore it
should support basic power management by implementing, if
necessary, the .suspend and .resume methods used during the
system-wide suspend and resume transitions. You should verify
that your driver correctly handles the suspend and resume, but
if you are unable to ensure that, please at least define the
.suspend method returning the -ENOSYS ("Function not
implemented") error. You should also try to make sure that your
driver uses as little power as possible when it's not doing
anything. For the driver testing instructions see
Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt and for a relatively
complete overview of the power management issues related to
drivers see Documentation/power/devices.txt .
Control: In general if there is active maintainance of a driver by
the author then patches will be redirected to them unless
they are totally obvious and without need of checking.