linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] hid: add suspend/resume hooks for hid drivers

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:12:02 +0100
From:	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rick L. Vinyard Jr." <rvinyard@...nmsu.edu>,
	Nicu Pavel <npavel@...ner.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] hid: add suspend/resume hooks for hid drivers

On Thu, 25 February 2010 Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 17:01:12 schrieb Bruno Prémont:
> > Add suspend/resume hooks for HID drivers so these can do some
> > additional state adjustment when device gets suspended/resumed.
> > 
> > This patch calls these hooks from usbhid suspend/resume functions,
> > only calling suspend on plain suspend, not autosuspend.
> > (it might be worth adding an autosuspend parameter to suspend
> > hook and calling suspend in both cases)
> 
> This is quite dirty.

Yeah, it covers what I did need (at least for success path). For the
rest I was expecting feedback (and probably should have labeled the
patch RFC)

> A driver that was autosuspended may be non-auto resumed. Secondly, do
> you really want to call the hook for reset_resume() if
> hid_post_reset() has failed?

Possibly not though depending on why hid_post_reset failed the first
USB operation would fail as well, thus it would fall under "normal"
error conditions for the driver...

Opinion of USB/HID experts is welcome!

> 	Regards
> 		Oliver

Thanks for the review!

Regards,
Bruno
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