Re: [char-misc-next] mei: me: allow runtime pm for platform with D0i3

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On 1/4/2018 9:27 AM, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> mei: me: allow runtime pm for platform with
> > D0i3
> >
> > On 1/2/2018 11:01 AM, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > >   From the pci power documentation:
> > > "The driver itself should not call pm_runtime_allow(), though.
> > > Instead, it should let user space or some platform-specific code do
> > > that (user space can do it via sysfs as stated above)..."
> > >
> > > However, the S0ix residency cannot be reached without MEI device
> > > getting into low power state. Hence, for mei devices that support
> > > D0i3, it's better to make runtime power management mandatory and not
> > > rely on the system integration such as udev rules.
> > It still is not mandatory with this change. The default changes from "on" to
> > "auto", but still user space can change it back to "on".
> That's correct, maybe better statement would be  'default  setting' instead of 'mandatory'.
> I can respin the patch if needed, let me know.

Greg has applied it already it seems, so I guess that shouldn't be 
necessary. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael