linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] spmi: remove wakeup command before slave probe

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Message-ID: <20150219122325.429afe8f@gavidov-lnx.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:23:25 -0700
From:	Gilad Avidov <gavidov@...eaurora.org>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Josh Cartwright <joshc@....teric.us>, sdharia@...eaurora.org,
	mlocke@...eaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	iivanov@...sol.com, galak@...eaurora.org, agross@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] spmi: remove wakeup command before slave probe

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:17:13 -0800
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:

> On 02/18/15 07:39, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:51:11PM -0700, Gilad Avidov wrote:
> >> According to spmi spec a slave powers up into startup state and
> >> then transitions into active state. Thus, the wakeup command is
> >> not required before calling the slave's probe. The wakeup command
> >> is only needed for slaves that are in sleep state after receiving
> >> the sleep command.
> >>
> >> This is a bug since spmi master controllers, such as spmi-pmic-arb,
> >> which have no support for wakeup command return an error on that
> >> command and thus fail before reaching a slave driver probe.
> > If masters are required by the spec to support all commands as
> > Stephen mentions, then I'd argue this is not a bug in the core code
> > at all, but in the spmi-pmic-arb driver.  But, unfortunately,
> > having lost access to the spec, I'll defer.
> >
> > Regardless, I think this is useful as an optimization, just with
> > dubious justification.
> >
> > Therefore,
> >
> > Acked-by: Josh Cartwright <joshc@....teric.us>
> >
> >
> 
> Agreed, it's mostly an optimization and aligns the code more with the
> spec. How about we drop the "This is a bug" part?
> 

As Stephen suggested, I'll drop the bug part.

Thank you for the reviews,
Gilad

> With that done,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> 

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