linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 08/20] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: support runtime PM

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Date:	Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:11:29 +0530
From:	viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
To:	"Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linus.walleij@...aro.org" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
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	Vipin KUMAR <vipin.kumar@...com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 08/20] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: support runtime PM

On 08/04/2011 02:22 PM, Koul, Vinod wrote:
> i dont think pm_runtime_put_sync() is the right thing to do here. This
> will call your suspend and return after suspend has been called. This
> will delay your probe completion and have impact on system boot time,
> this is a very wrong approach.
> Please move this to _put, so that suspend will be called asynchronously
> 
> Also while at it why should you require all the _put calls to be _sync
> type?

That was a mistake, and i already fixed this in a reply to Russell's mail
today.

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viresh
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