linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] usb: xhci: remove stop device and ring doorbell in hub control and bus suspend

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Date:	Sat, 09 May 2015 07:37:38 +0800
From:	"Lu, Baolu" <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] usb: xhci: remove stop device and ring doorbell
 in hub control and bus suspend



On 05/08/2015 07:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 06:26:28PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>> There is no need to call xhci_stop_device() and xhci_ring_device() in
>> hub control and bus suspend functions since all device suspend and
>> resume have been notified through device_suspend/device_resume interfaces.
> Does this mean that after patch 2, things are broken and require this
> patch to prevent problems?

No. things work well without patch 3. "stop device" and "ring doorbell"
operations in hub control and bus suspend is harmless, but duplicated
and unnecessary, so I remove them.

>
> I don't want to have any patch to make the system unstable.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thank you,
Baolu

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