netdev - Re: [PATCH] sh_net: runtime pm wrap mdio read and write

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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:25:01 +0000
From:	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@...esas.com, magnus.damn@...nsource.se,
	horms@...ge.net.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh_net: runtime pm wrap mdio read and write

On 26/02/14 19:21, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 07:48 PM, Ben Dooks wrote:
>
>> On the R8A7790, if the device has been suspended by pm_runtime
>> and the MII code tries to access the bus then there is a possiblity
>
>     s/possiblity/possibility/.

ta, will fix.

>> that it will fail to read any data from the MII bus.
>
>> Change the MDIO read and write calls to be wrappered by calls to
>
>     s/wrappered/wrapped/.

ta.


>> pm_runtime_{get,put}_sync so that the device will be enabled during
>> these calls. It is put here to avoid having to enable and disable
>> the clock for every bit that is sent by the MII bit-banging code.
>
>> This has been exposed by the change to using OF and a fix to enable
>> the pm_runtime clock management which seems to have been broken for
>> some time for the device-tree booted Renesas kernels.
>
>     What fix to enable run-time PM are you talking about?

building drivers/sh/pm_runtime.c for the multiplatform case.


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