On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:25:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > A couple of remarks if you will. > > First, we don't know which case is the majority at this point. For > now, there is one example of each, but it may very well turn out that > the SK Hynix BC501 above needs to be quirked. > > Second, the reference here really is 5.2, so if there are any systems > that are not better off with 5.3-rc than they were with 5.2, well, we > have not made progress. However, if there are systems that are worse > off with 5.3, that's bad. In the face of the latest findings the only > way to avoid that is to be backwards compatible with 5.2 and that's > where my patch is going. That cannot be achieved by quirking all > cases that are reported as "bad", because there still may be > unreported ones.
I have to agree. I think your proposal may allow PCI D3cold, in which case we do need to reintroduce the HMB handling.
