Re: [PATCH v1] net/core: support runtime PM on net_device

From: Ming Lei <redacted>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:55:58 +0800

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Bjørn Mork [off-list ref] wrote:

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Because bugs are supposed to be fixed and not hidden?

OK, now let's discuss solution for the problem which should be
clear and be solved.

The 1st one is to do it by this patch, or rule out some ioctl cmd
which needn't wakeup device.

The second one is to fix ioctl one by one in each driver.

Any other solution?

The second is clearly the correct way to handle these issues.

Drivers need to be aware when their drivers ops are called whether
they can safely access the device or not.

I'm not applying this patch.