Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Properly undo autosuspend

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 11:44:54PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 11:19 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > The PM Runtime docs say:
> >   Drivers in ->remove() callback should undo the runtime PM changes done
> >   in ->probe(). Usually this means calling pm_runtime_disable(),
> >   pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend() etc.
> >
> > We weren't doing that for autosuspend. Let's do it.
> >
> > Fixes: 9bede63127c6 ("drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Use pm_runtime autosuspend")
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> 
> Hm. I know a few places in drivers where I don't do this :/

It seems to be a very common problem indeed, I haven't seen any driver
yet that uses pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend(). We could play a game of
whack-a-mole, but we'll never win. Could this be solved in the runtime
PM framework instead ? pm_runtime_disable() could disable auto-suspend.
If there are legitimate use cases for disabling runtime PM temporarily
without disabling auto-suspend, then a new function designed
specifically for remove() that would take care of cleaning everything up
could be another option.

> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart