Bug#798102: ams: Lots of kworker activity after wake from hibernate on Powerbook

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Michael Hanselmann <public@hansmi.ch> wrote:
> Hello Dan and Mathieu
>
> On 18.04.2016 18:17, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
>> Fortunately I still have two devices with the two variants of the
>> sensor. I'm not able to look into this in more detail before early May,
>> but then I will try to spin up the hardware and reproduce the issue.
>
> I spent an afternoon trying to debug this issue on a PowerBook5,8 with
> Debian Jessie and did not succeed. Suspend doesn't work at all and
> hibernation seldomly works, with both Linux 3.16.7-ckt25-2 and
> 4.5.1-1~bpo8+1. I didn't have more time to look into the actual issue
> with the ams driver.
>
> What I can confirm, however, is that the sensor's values can be read
> from /sys/devices/platform/ams/current. “jstest” from the joystick
> package did not work as it seems to be incompatible with the kernel
> interface.
>
> I'll be happy to review any patches, but can't be of much more help at
> this time, unfortunately. I've noticed that I'm still listed as the
> driver's maintainer and will send a patch to mark it orphaned soon.

Thanks for the honest answer.

Well, isn't it better to simply remove this driver if no-one is maintaining it ?