Re: [RFC][PATCH] Power domains for platform bus type

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jan 31 2011 - 13:09:38 EST


On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > > One thing about this implementation is slightly questionable. The new
> > > power_domain callbacks were added to the __weak platform PM routines,
> > > which means they will have to be included in every overriding routine
> > > provided by a platform imiplementation.
> > >
> > > Would it be better to separate these things? Have the power_domain
> > > callbacks occur in a static outer function which then calls a public
> > > __weak inner function that can be overridden?
> >
> > That certainly is a good idea, but I wasn't sure how to do that. It looks
> > like I could keep the __weak functions as they are and modify
> > platform_dev_pm_ops instead to point to a new set of function that in turn
> > would call the __weak ones. For example, the .suspend pointer in
> > platform_dev_pm_ops might point to a new function, say
> > platform_pm_full_suspend() that would call the power domain functions and
> > the "original" platform_pm_suspend(). Is that what you mean?
>
> Yes. But what about the platform_bus_set_pm_ops() interface? Should
> platform-specific replacements for the pm_ops functions also include
> the power_domain callbacks?

Well, whoever uses platform_bus_set_pm_ops(), he can simply prevent power
domains from being used by not defining them in the first place. :-)

Rafael
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