netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] USB: adds comment on suspend callback

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Date:	Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:16:35 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	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,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] USB: adds comment on suspend callback

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com> wrote:
> This patch adds comments on interface driver suspend callback
> to emphasize that the failure return value is ignored by
> USB core in system sleep context, so do not try to recover
> device for this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/usb.h |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
> index 4d22d0f..ea9d7cb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/usb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/usb.h
> @@ -978,7 +978,10 @@ struct usbdrv_wrap {
>   *     the "usbfs" filesystem.  This lets devices provide ways to
>   *     expose information to user space regardless of where they
>   *     do (or don't) show up otherwise in the filesystem.
> - * @suspend: Called when the device is going to be suspended by the system.
> + * @suspend: Called when the device is going to be suspended by the
> + *     system either from system sleep or runtime suspend context, and
> + *     its failed return value will be ignored in system sleep context,
> + *     so do NOT try to recover device for this case.
>   * @resume: Called when the device is being resumed by the system.
>   * @reset_resume: Called when the suspended device has been reset instead
>   *     of being resumed.

On the other hand, resume()/reset_resume() should deal with the previous
suspend failure if the policy to ignore suspend failure is kept.


Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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