Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] introduce device async actions mechanism

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Aug 12 2009 - 16:10:23 EST


On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > That looks quite complicated at first sight, but asynchronous resume with
> > completions can be done in a relatively simple patch. I've got one, so
> > tomorow I'll post it for further discussion.
>
> Okay. I would think that managing the threads would account for most
> of the complexity in either implementation, but I'll wait to see how
> your approach works out.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> >
> >
> > PS
> > Did you have a chance to look at rev. 15 of the runtime PM patch
> > (http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/40306/)?
>
> Yes, sorry for not getting back to you. It looks okay.
>
> The one thing I'm not sure of is the pm_runtime_put_noidle calls in
> driver_probe_device and __device_release_driver. It seems that we
> should always call pm_runtime_put regardless of whether the probe
> succeeds or not.

Did you mean pm_runtime_put_sync()?

> For example, the USB stack is set up to suspend devices that don't have
> a driver (this is handled at the bus subsystem level). But if probing
> failed, there wouldn't be any idle callback and so the suspend wouldn't
> take place.

OK, I'll make this change.

Thanks,
Rafael
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