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Message-ID: <20210608144905.GE1804083@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 10:49:05 -0400
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] PM: runtime: Clarify documentation when callbacks
are unassigned
On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 04:30:48PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 16:23, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:02:50AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > Recent changes to the PM core allows ->runtime_suspend|resume callbacks to
> > > be unassigned.
> > >
> > > In the earlier behaviour the PM core would return -ENOSYS, when trying to
> > > runtime resume a device, for example. Let's update the documentation to
> > > clarify this.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes in v2:
> > > - Added a new patch for the updating the docs, as pointed out by Alan.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst | 8 ++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
> > > index 18ae21bf7f92..3d09c9fd450d 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
> > > @@ -827,6 +827,14 @@ or driver about runtime power changes. Instead, the driver for the device's
> > > parent must take responsibility for telling the device's driver when the
> > > parent's power state changes.
> > >
> > > +Note that, in some cases it may not be desirable for subsystems/drivers to call
More than 80 chars.
> > > +pm_runtime_no_callbacks() for their devices. This could be because a subset of
More than 80 chars.
> > > +the runtime PM callbacks needs to be implemented, a platform dependent PM
> > > +domain could get attached to the device or that the device is power manged
s/manged/managed/
> > > +through a supplier device link. For these reasons and to avoid boilerplate code
More than 80 chars.
> > > +in subsystems/drivers, the PM core allows runtime PM callbacks to be
> > > +unassigned.
> > > +
> >
> > You should also mention that if a callback pointer is NULL, the
> > runtime PM core will act as though there was a callback and it
> > returned 0. That's an important consideration.
>
> Good point, let me add it.
>
> I send a new version of $subject patch, unless Rafael is happy to do
> the amending when/if applying?
>
> >
> > Also, notice that this file was carefully edited to make sure that
> > none of the lines exceed 80 characters. Your new addition should
> > be the same.
>
> Absolutely, but it should be okay already, no?
See above.
Alan
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