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Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:04:52 -0700
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] console, serial8250: Disable PM and DMA ops
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* Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [180517 06:56]:
> * Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> [180516 13:12]:
> > On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 12:47 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > But since I am on it. You have to enable runtime-PM for the UART. So
> > > what is the problem if you simply don't enable it for the UART which
> > > used as the kernel console?
> > 
> > How do I know at the ->probe() time that device in question is going to
> > be kernel console? Maybe I missed simple way of it.
> 
> Hmm parse the kernel cmdline maybe? :)
> 
> BTW, kernel already has earlycon doing exactly what you're trying to do.

And if earlycon does not do the job, maybe just set up some
kernel command line parameter like "noidle" that makes serial
probe call pm_runtime_forbid().

Regards,

Tony