netdev - Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: Protect runtime_auto check by #ifdef CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
	Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: Protect runtime_auto check by #ifdef CONFIG_PM

On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-03-20 at 11:43 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > If CONFIG_PM=n:
> > 
> >     drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c: In function ‘lan78xx_get_stats64’:
> >     drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c:3274: error: ‘struct dev_pm_info’ has no
> > member named ‘runtime_auto’
> > 
> > If PM is disabled, the runtime_auto flag is not available, but auto
> > suspend is not enabled anyway.  Hence protect the check for
> > runtime_auto
> > by #ifdef CONFIG_PM to fix this.
> > 
> > Fixes: a59f8c5b048dc938 ("lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64")
> > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> > ---
> > Alternatively, we can add a dev_pm_runtime_auto_is_enabled() wrapper
> > to
> > include/linux/pm.h, which always return false if CONFIG_PM is
> > disabled.
> 
> That is what we do for almost everything else in include/pm_runtime.h
> So it is the best solution to add the stub.

Guenter's question about whether drivers should try to access
runtime_auto in the first place was a good one.  A similar problem
arises in the block layer: When a block device has removable media, the
block layer probes at 1-second intervals looking for media changes.  
This defeats autosuspend in the same way as we're talking about here.

One possible solution is to export a sysfs parameter to prevent 
statistics collection (or more generally, to change the interval at 
which it occurs).

But checking the runtime_auto flag is probably not a great idea.  Even
if it isn't set, collecting statistics is likely to wait up a device
that otherwise would have remained suspended.

Perhaps the best solution is to collect the statistics only when the 
device is not suspended or is about to suspend.

Alan Stern