netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/7] usbnet: cdc_mbim: don't recover device if suspend fails in system sleep

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Date:	Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:09:19 +0100
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] usbnet: cdc_mbim: don't recover device if suspend fails in system sleep

Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com> writes:

> If suspend callback fails in system sleep context, usb core will
> ignore the failure and let system sleep go ahead further, so
> this patch doesn't recover device under this situation.
>
> Cc: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c
> index 248d2dc..da83546 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c
> @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static int cdc_mbim_suspend(struct usb_interface *intf, pm_message_t message)
>  
>  	if (intf == ctx->control && info->subdriver && info->subdriver->suspend)
>  		ret = info->subdriver->suspend(intf, message);
> -	if (ret < 0)
> +	if (ret < 0 && PMSG_IS_AUTO(msg))
>  		usbnet_resume(intf);
>  
>  error:

NAK. We if the device cannot suspend, then it cannot do suspend halfways
either. Whether the caller will ignore the error or not, is irrelevant.


Bjørn
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