Refresh ACPI APM and PMU devices on resume

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:06, David Zeuthen wrote:
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Maybe Holger answer to your other comments ...

> FWIW, having to rescan stuff (the patch Richard committed above),
> unloading and loading modules etc. is a big and nasty hack because
> things in the kernel such as ACPI and certain drivers are broken.

Btw. It looks as the patch not work: 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6542

> <rant>
> One main point that I seem to be making over and over again these days
> is that it's non-sense to put in hacks in upper layers instead of fixing
> the fundamental problems. It's pretty bad to do this because it masks
> the problems thus only delaying the real fix.
> </rant>

Maybe workarounds delay fixing problems, but our users don't want to wait for 
this. They want _now_ a working solution and not in several months or maybe 
years. 

What a pretty world would it be, if we could remove all workarounds and all 
bugs get fixed immediately. ;-)

Danny