linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / Runtime: fix autosuspend documentation

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Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:35:05 -0700
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / Runtime: fix autosuspend documentation

* Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org> [170410 04:41]:
> Update the autosuspend documentation which claimed that the autosuspend
> delay is not taken into account when using the non-autosuspend helper
> functions, something which is no longer true since commit d66e6db28df3
> ("PM / Runtime: Respect autosuspend when idle triggers suspend").
> 
> This specifically means that drivers must now disable autosuspend before
> disabling runtime pm in probe error paths and remove callbacks if
> pm_runtime_put_sync was being used to suspend the device before
> returning. (If an idle callback can prevent suspend,
> pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend must be used instead of pm_runtime_put_sync
> as before.)
> 
> Also remove the claim that the autosuspend helpers behave "just like
> the non-autosuspend counterparts", something which have never really
> been true as some of the latter use idle notifications.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>