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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] PM / sleep: Let devices force direct_complete
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> Hi Tomeu,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Friday 17 April 2015 17:24:49 Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > Introduce a new per-device flag power.force_direct_complete that will
> > instruct the PM core to ignore the runtime PM status of its descendants
> > when deciding whether to let this device remain in runtime suspend when
> > the system goes into a sleep power state.
> >
> > This is needed because otherwise it would be needed to get dozens of
> > drivers to implement the prepare() callback and be runtime PM active
> > even if they don't have a 1-to-1 relationship with a piece of HW.
>
> I'll let PM experts comment on the approach, but I believe the new flag would
> benefit from being documented (likely in Documentation/power/devices.txt) :-)

Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt is the right place.

However, I'm not sure that this is the sort of thing Rafael meant when
he suggested adding a new flag. I thought he meant the PM core would
look at the new flag only if there was no ->prepare method at all.
Then if the new flag was set, the PM core would act as though ->prepare
had returned 1. That way there would be no need to add silly little
one-line *_prepare() routines all over the place.

Maybe he had something else in mind, though...

Alan Stern



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