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Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:35:56 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: platform/i2c busses: pm runtime and system sleep

On Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:13:53PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > Well, the _solution_ is to get rid of the legacy stuff from those buses in the
> > first place.  Then, they'll just need to use the generic ops without any
> > trouble.
> 
> > What you're proposing is a workaround that people will use as an excuse for
> > not doing the right thing forever.
> 
> I hadn't actually realised that there was any urgency about removing the
> old APIs - I'd not really seen much work in that direction.  If the
> intention is to actively push people over to dev_pm_ops that does make a
> bit more sense.

There's no urgency strictly speaking, but there's a preference. :-)

I think it probably is the time to actually start pushing people into that,
because the legacy stuff has been causing too much pain recently.

Thanks,
Rafael
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