Re: [PATCH] dmaengine/ste_dma40: support pm in dma40

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Thu Nov 17 2011 - 03:36:21 EST


On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:10 +0530, Narayanan G wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 06:23:52 +0100, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > runtime pm manages the device power management. It will call your
> > suspend/resume callbacks when your device is idle/active and manages the
> > device usage for you.
> > Within your device you need to do your own management, which should be
> > linked to channel being active. You should not club the two.
> >
> > I am not sure if the clock framework can help you on this
>
> Instead of switching on and off eventlines very frequently, I'll
> do it in the runtime_suspend() and runtime_resume(), so that it
> looks more neat and can get away with these usage counters.
> I will re-work and submit a new version of this patch.
if you want to do your clock switching per channel based then you cant
do in runtime_resume/suspned code which seems to be approach. As I said
its device specific, so if you move all to these callbacks then you can
easily eliminate the mess in patch right now and make it cleaner.


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~Vinod

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