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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] pm: Introduce __pm to mark power management code
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On Thursday, May 09, 2013 02:31:46 PM Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2013, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Thu, 9 May 2013, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > >
> > > > The following patch series introduces a marker for power management functions
> > > > and data. This this marker, #ifdef CONFIG_PM and #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
> > > > can be removed from most of the code. This ensures that the conditional code
> > > > still compiles but is not included in the object file.
> > > >
> > > > As a side effect, drivers declaring struct dev_pm_ops unconditionally
> > > > get a bit smaller if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is not configured.
> > >
> > > What about code that depends on CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME? Or code that
> > > depends on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP but not on CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME?
> > >
> > Should we also introduce __pm_sleep and __pm_runtime ?
>
> If you want to implement this correctly, I think you have to.
>
> As for whether the additional complication is desirable ... I'll leave
> that up to Rafael to decide.

Well, if that had been so easy to do, we would have done it already before.

I think that we first should try to combine PM_SLEEP with PM_RUNTIME (plus
some other power management options related to CPU PM) and then introduce
something like __pm. Otherwise, it's going to be a mess.

Thanks,
Rafael


--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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