linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pinctrl: Allow indicating loss of state across suspend/resume

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Date:   Fri, 3 Nov 2017 10:02:45 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com, swarren@...dia.com,
        andy.shevchenko@...il.com, alcooperx@...il.com,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pinctrl: Allow indicating loss of state across
 suspend/resume

On 11/03/2017 09:11 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com> [171103 10:38]:
>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 04:15:49PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> Hello Linus,
>>>
>>> It's me again, so I have been thinking about the problem originally
>>> reported in: [PATCH fixes v3] pinctrl: Really force states during suspend/resume
>>>
>>> and other similar patches a while ago, and this new version allows a platform
>>> using pinctrl-single to specify whether its pins are going to lose their state
>>> during a system deep sleep.
>>>
>>> Note that this is still checked at the pinctrl_select_state() because consumers
>>> of the pinctrl API might be calling this from their suspend/resume functions
>>> and should not have to know whether the provider does lose its pin states.
>>>
>>
>> Still feels to me like it should be the providers job to the
>> restore the state rather than expecting the consumer to
>> re-request any state it had. But lets wait and see what Linus
>> thinks.
> 
> But isn't it the consumer device losing it's state here? Or the
> pinctrl provider losing it's state?

The pinctrl provider is losing its state, hence these two patches.

> 
> Anyways, the context lost flag should be managed in the PM core for
> the device, so adding linux-pm and Rafael to Cc.

I don't think it's that simple but sure, why not.
-- 
Florian