linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: Enable/Disable amba

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:50:40 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>, pratyush.anand@...com,
	rajeev-dlh.kumar@...com, armando.visconti@...com,
	bhupesh.sharma@...com, vinod.koul@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vipin.kumar@...com,
	shiraz.hashim@...com, amit.virdi@...com, vipulkumar.samar@...com,
	viresh.linux@...il.com, deepak.sikri@...com,
	dan.j.williams@...el.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: Enable/Disable amba_pclk with
 channel requests

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 02:04:47AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> >>
>> >> ..and while it will just cause some double refcounts on the clock,
>> >> it makes sense to delete the pclk manipulation from the PL022
>> >> driver code as part of the patch, like this:
>> >
>> > Yes, this looks fine.  Shall I wrap it up as part of my patch?
>>
>> Yes please.
>> Acked-by.
>
> Can you give this a try - this adds runtime PM to the primecell core,
> updates the SPI driver for those changes, and adds runtime PM to the
> MMCI driver.  I've briefly tested this on Versatile PB926, though
> obviously not the SPI stuff very much because Versatile has no SPI
> peripherals.
>
> I chose the PCI methodology to this - rather than having every driver
> fiddle about with enabling runtime PM, that's dealt with in the core
> and instead, drivers just do a put() in their probe and a balancing
> get() in their remove function to activate runtime PM for the device.

Sorry for the delay.

It works like a charm. I've tested it on U300 with a loopback test
and MMC and for both it works perfectly and the reference
counter goes to zero when unused.

Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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