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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver core: Add API to wait for deferred probe to complete during init
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 14:50:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130509135017.GD3200@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6uHBNUcbD9SeRP5c3E8NN-Z2yjVV+9VAhuoJnXoBtTu2w@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:50:46PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:

> However, if a device that shuts down resources after init has
> completed and then cannot turn those resources back on when another
> driver requests them then it sounds like there is a bigger design
> problem. We're in a hotplug world and most of the time a driver cannot
> assume that a resource will never get requested after initcalls have
> completed. It sounds like a design bug in the driver if it cannot
> handle that use case.

Even if the driver copes fine it can still be desirable to avoid the
power down/up cycle if it involves some user visible effect - things
like blinking the display off then on for example.  That said I am a
little suspicious about this approach, it doesn't feel as robust as it
should to go round individual callers.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-09 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-09  5:18 [PATCH 0/3] Fix disable of unused clk/regulator with deferred probe Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09  5:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] driver core: Add API to wait for deferred probe to complete during init Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09 10:07   ` Ming Lei
2013-05-09 11:50     ` Grant Likely
2013-05-09 13:50       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-05-09 14:14         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-09 14:37           ` Mark Brown
2013-05-09 15:07             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-09 15:43               ` Mark Brown
2013-05-09 18:39               ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-05-09 16:39           ` Grant Likely
2013-05-10  9:30             ` Mark Brown
2013-05-09 16:52       ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09 18:09         ` Grant Likely
2013-05-09 18:12           ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09 14:32   ` Ming Lei
2013-05-09  5:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] clk: Disable unused clocks after deferred probing is done Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09  5:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] regulator: core: Disable unused regulators " Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: Disable unused clocks " Saravana Kannan
2013-05-10  6:45   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-05-10 23:03     ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-22 10:35       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-05-16  4:34   ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-16 12:55     ` Ulf Hansson
2013-05-16 19:23       ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-29  7:51     ` Mike Turquette
2013-05-30  1:46       ` Saravana Kannan
2013-05-09 18:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: core: Disable unused regulators " Saravana Kannan

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