Re: [PATCH v5] Driver for ON Semi AR0521 camera sensor

[Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 11:22:10PM +0100, Daniel Scally wrote:
> Hi Jacopo
>
> On 11/10/2021 15:34, Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> >>>> +static int ar0521_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> +	struct v4l2_subdev *sd = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
> >>>> +	struct ar0521_dev *sensor = to_ar0521_dev(sd);
> >>>> +
> >>>> +	v4l2_async_unregister_subdev(&sensor->sd);
> >>>> +	media_entity_cleanup(&sensor->sd.entity);
> >>>> +	v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&sensor->ctrls.handler);
> >>>> +	pm_runtime_disable(&client->dev);
> >>>> +	pm_runtime_set_suspended(&client->dev);
> >>> set_suspended() then disable maybe ?
> >> Other drivers seem to do it the above way but I don't know the
> >> difference.
> > Maybe I'm wrong but calling set_suspend() after pm_runtime() had been
> > disabled seems pointless. A minor anyway as it's in the driver's
> > remove function.
> >
>
> fwiw, the kernel doc [1] for pm_runtime_set_suspended() does say that
> it's not valid to call it for devices where runtime PM is still enabled.
>

Ah, great! thanks for pointing it out, it was very well visible in the
documentation :) Sorry for the noise!

Cheers
   j

>
> [1]
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux/pm_runtime.h#L510
>