Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] PM: runtime: Clarify documentation when callbacks are unassigned

[Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 04:30:48PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 16:23, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:02:50AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > Recent changes to the PM core allows ->runtime_suspend|resume callbacks to
> > > be unassigned.
> > >
> > > In the earlier behaviour the PM core would return -ENOSYS, when trying to
> > > runtime resume a device, for example. Let's update the documentation to
> > > clarify this.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes in v2:
> > >       - Added a new patch for the updating the docs, as pointed out by Alan.
> > >
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst | 8 ++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
> > > index 18ae21bf7f92..3d09c9fd450d 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst
> > > @@ -827,6 +827,14 @@ or driver about runtime power changes.  Instead, the driver for the device's
> > >  parent must take responsibility for telling the device's driver when the
> > >  parent's power state changes.
> > >
> > > +Note that, in some cases it may not be desirable for subsystems/drivers to call

More than 80 chars.

> > > +pm_runtime_no_callbacks() for their devices. This could be because a subset of

More than 80 chars.

> > > +the runtime PM callbacks needs to be implemented, a platform dependent PM
> > > +domain could get attached to the device or that the device is power manged

s/manged/managed/

> > > +through a supplier device link. For these reasons and to avoid boilerplate code

More than 80 chars.

> > > +in subsystems/drivers, the PM core allows runtime PM callbacks to be
> > > +unassigned.
> > > +
> >
> > You should also mention that if a callback pointer is NULL, the
> > runtime PM core will act as though there was a callback and it
> > returned 0.  That's an important consideration.
> 
> Good point, let me add it.
> 
> I send a new version of $subject patch, unless Rafael is happy to do
> the amending when/if applying?
> 
> >
> > Also, notice that this file was carefully edited to make sure that
> > none of the lines exceed 80 characters.  Your new addition should
> > be the same.
> 
> Absolutely, but it should be okay already, no?

See above.

Alan