Re: Power Management Framework architectural design

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:29:23AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> The problem is that power domains don't necessarily fit into that strict 
> hierarchical model; one "device" (the main board or whatever) might have 
> multiple power domains with control logic of those domains not in the 
> ancestry of the devices whose power is being managed.

I know. That's why I asked first where the *information* comes from.
The only alternative to inheriting the hooks that doesn't change half of
the tree is to do it *after* device probing & attachment. But that looks
even worse.

Joerg