Re: [PATCH] [PM] Fixes missing PM entries in sysfs without CONFIG_PM_SLEEP

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, 4 of August 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > > Rafael, any objections?
> > 
> > Hm, well, one thing below.
> 
> > device_pm_add() can now be void and the error variable in there is not
> > necessary any more.
> 
> Do you think we will want to make device_pm_add() return an error at 
> some point in the future?

Well, maybe, but not any time soon. :-)

> For example, earlier you had it fail if the parent device was asleep, instead
> of just printing a warning. 

Yes, I remeber it, but there still are some drivers that would break if we
did that.

Anyway, I think it won't be hard to change device_pm_add() to return error
codes again if we decide to in future.

Thanks,
Rafael
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