RE: [PATCH 1/1] driver core: disable device's runtime pm duringshutdown

From: Chen Peter-B29397
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 00:53:31 EST




> > > So it is asleep when the new pm_runtime_disable() call is made, so it
> stays
> > > asleep, omap_i2c_xfer cannot wake it, the transfer doesn't happen and
> the
> > > system doesn't get powered off.
> > >
> > > So here is a device that should *not* have pm disabled at shutdown.
> > >
> > > So I feel this fix is a little too heavy-handed.
> >
> > Maybe the device's runtime PM should not be disabled if
> > there is no ->shutdown defined in its driver, how about the blew?
>
> Thanks, but that won't actually help.
>
> dev->bus->shutdown is i2c_device_shutdown so there is a shutdown method.
> However i2c_device_shutdown just finds the driver can calls
> driver->shutdown(), and that is the 'shutdown' that is NULL.
>
Then, i2c should be registered before than twl4030 as a platform device, since
twl4030 is an i2c device. Just let i2c shut down later than twl4030's.

> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
>
>

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