netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 4/7] usbnet: cdc_mbim: don't recover device if suspend fails in system sleep

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Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:53:52 +0100
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/7] usbnet: cdc_mbim: don't recover device if suspend fails in system sleep

Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no> wrote:
>
>> I believe the correct here is to document the fact that we require the
>> subdriver->suspend() callback to always return 0 if !PMSG_IS_AUTO(message).
>> That is best done with a comment. No need to add any redundant code.
>
> Considered that the subdriver might change its return value in future,

Not likely.  It lives under the exact same restrictions as a standalone
USB interface driver.  If it starts returning something else, then this
driver should probably do so as well.

> how about just add the below comment?
>
>         /* TODO: resume() might need to handle suspend failure from subdriver */

OK with me if that includes dropping the redundant code change.

Note that the same issue and comment applies to the usbnet_suspend()
call as well.  We currently rely on both calls to always return 0 on
system suspend.  Which they are guaranteed to do, because they are both
directly used as .suspend callbacks in other USB interface drivers.


Bjørn
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