Re: [PATCH] ahci: platform support for suspend/resume

[Brian Norris]

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Hi Felipe,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:27:59PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>> +     /* Does platform support suspend/resume? */
>> +     if (!pdata->suspend || !pdata->resume)
>> +             return -EINVAL;
>
> should you really prevent suspend is platform doesn't provide
> ->suspend() ?

No, we shouldn't prevent suspend entirely; that would just be my
accidental side effect.

> I mean, we could some platform where all clocks are autogated and
> there's no need for platform to do anything. Would it be better to only
> call pdata->suspend if it exists but still let the AHCI-specific part go
> through ?

Perhaps. But would this have any unintended effects on systems that
don't implement AHCI power management at all? My intention was just to
provide an 'opt-in' interface for platform developers. I probably got
this wrong.

Brian
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