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From: ulf.hansson@stericsson•com (Ulf Hansson)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH/RFC v2] ARM: amba: Remove AMBA level regulator support
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:54:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F87F7CD.4000004@stericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120413091828.GJ3168@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On 04/13/2012 11:18 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:03:56AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>
>> But, how should those amba drivers that implements runtime PM
>> support be able to switch of the vcore regulator during normal
>> suspend? In normal suspend case we can not use
>
> A generic AMBA driver should have no idea about the implementation of
> the particular SoC that it's integrated on to.  This applies even more
> to system suspend (where drivers can generally just assume that they
> will loose all power normally) than it does to runtime suspend.
>
>> pm_runtime_put/pm_runtime_put_sync to trigger the power domain
>> runtime functions to switch of vcore. This is kind of more generic
>> problem when dealing with power domains, but as said this patch will
>> have consequences.
>
> The power domain gets callbacks on the system suspend path too and can
> do whatever is sensible there.
>
>> As far as I can see, the power domain must then implement a
>> suspend_noirq function to make sure same things is done as for the
>> runtime_suspend function. Do you agree with this as well or is there
>> another option?
>
> Yes, the power domain should just be handling this transparently.

Alright, thanks for your confirmation. Let's see how this works out then.

Kind regards
Ulf Hansson

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-13  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-01 18:58 [PATCH/RFC v2] ARM: amba: Remove AMBA level regulator support Mark Brown
2012-04-01 19:22 ` Linus Walleij
2012-04-01 19:39   ` Rabin Vincent
2012-04-01 22:39     ` Linus Walleij
2012-04-02 10:14       ` Mark Brown
2012-04-02 10:43         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-04-02 11:34           ` Mark Brown
2012-04-02 16:57             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-04-02 17:19               ` Mark Brown
2012-04-02 15:52           ` Linus Walleij
2012-04-01 21:27   ` Mark Brown
2012-04-01 22:33     ` Linus Walleij
2012-04-02 10:41       ` Mark Brown
2012-04-06  7:49 ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-10  8:31   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-04-10  8:35     ` Mark Brown
2012-04-10  8:47       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-04-10  8:58         ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-06 18:12 ` Rob Herring
2012-04-13  9:03 ` Ulf Hansson
2012-04-13  9:18   ` Mark Brown
2012-04-13  9:54     ` Ulf Hansson [this message]

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