netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] can: Convert to runtime

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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:32:48 -0800
From:	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>
To:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
CC:	Kedareswara rao Appana <appana.durga.rao@...inx.com>,
	<wg@...ndegger.com>, <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	<grant.likely@...aro.org>, <linux-can@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kedareswara rao Appana <appanad@...inx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] can: Convert to runtime_pm

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 05:30PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 01/07/2015 04:58 PM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> >> I think you have to convert the _remove() function, too. Have a look at
> >> the gpio-zynq.c driver:
> >>
> >>> static int zynq_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>> {
> >>> 	struct zynq_gpio *gpio = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> >>>
> >>> 	pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);
> >>
> >> However I don't understand why the get_sync() is here. Maybe Sören can help?
> > 
> > IIRC, the concern was that the remove function may be called while the device is
> > runtime suspended. Hence the remove function needs to resume the device since the
> > remove function may access the HW.
> 
> What about the corresponding runtime_put()? Would some counter be
> unbalanced upon device removal?

Aren't those counters destroyed with module unloading?

	Sören
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