netdev - RE: [PATCH v3 5/8] thunderbolt: Communication with the ICM (firmware)

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Message-ID: <9B0331B6EBBD0E4684FBFAEDA55776F92CD7E6C8@HASMSX110.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:59:54 +0000
From:	"Rosen, Rami" <rami.rosen@...el.com>
To:	"Levy, Amir (Jer)" <amir.jer.levy@...el.com>,
	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
	"andreas.noever@...il.com" <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
CC:	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	thunderbolt-linux <thunderbolt-linux@...el.com>,
	"Westerberg, Mika" <mika.westerberg@...el.com>,
	"Rosen, Rami" <rami.rosen@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 5/8] thunderbolt: Communication with the ICM
 (firmware)

Hi, Amir,

>This patch is the communication with the FW.
>The network functionality is added in the next patches in the series 
>and with it, more messages from FW.
>Indeed this function always returns true in this patch, 
>but while writing it, I predicted that the network functionality will 
>use the send_event flag differently.
>You can see the documentation of send_event - currently unused in this patch.
>I don't see any harm that in this patch, this function will always return true,
>while applying the rest of the series will change it.

Ok, seems reasonable.

>The prototype of suspend is return int:
>http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/pm.h#L295

>The prototype of resume is return int:
>http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/pm.h#L295

You are right about this, I missed the macro invocation in your code, SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS(nhi_suspend, nhi_resume),
apologies.

 Regards,
 Rami Rosen
 Intel Corporation