On Thursday, 1 of May 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:57:58AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> > I'm not aware of a native Linux device driver that talks to this device
> > (nor can I think of a useful purpose for such a driver)
> > So it seems what is in play here is any BIOS code that talks to this device,
> > and Linux's standard PCI config space restore.
> 
> Perhaps we should be more aggressive about restoring PCI config space if 
> there's no driver bound to a device. The alternative in this case would 
> seem to be to write a driver for this device that does nothing other 
> than handle suspend/resume.

Well, we have default suspend/resume for PCI devices.  They are called for
devices that have no drivers bound to them and execute
pci_restore_state()/pci_restore_state(), among other things.  Isn't that
sufficient?

Rafael
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