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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: delete unneeded call to platform_get_drvdata
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:15:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520091526.GF15585@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520083531.GH2413@norris-Latitude-E6410>

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 01:35:31AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > >  static int bf5xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *dev)
> > > >  {
> > > > -       struct bf5xx_nand_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > > -
> > > >         return 0;
> > >
> > > In this case bf5xx_nand_suspend/resume could be removed?
> > 
> > I don't know.  It looks like it is intentional to have a definition that
> > returns an indication of success?  The complete set of definitions is:
> 
> I'm not so sure. I believe suspend/resume works just fine without the
> hooks, if those hooks would otherwise be doing nothing. It is notable
> that this driver is not using the modern dev_pm_ops form of the
> suspend/resume callbacks, so maybe it just hasn't aged gracefully--and
> possibly was never supported properly in the first place.
> 

These are called from platform_legacy_suspend/platform_legacy_resume.
It looks like the functions are not needed.

(I am not an expert on pm, I just querried my Smatch Cross Function
Database which is awesome).

regards,
dan carpenter


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: delete unneeded call to platform_get_drvdata
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:15:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520091526.GF15585@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520083531.GH2413@norris-Latitude-E6410>

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 01:35:31AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > >  static int bf5xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *dev)
> > > >  {
> > > > -       struct bf5xx_nand_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > > -
> > > >         return 0;
> > >
> > > In this case bf5xx_nand_suspend/resume could be removed?
> > 
> > I don't know.  It looks like it is intentional to have a definition that
> > returns an indication of success?  The complete set of definitions is:
> 
> I'm not so sure. I believe suspend/resume works just fine without the
> hooks, if those hooks would otherwise be doing nothing. It is notable
> that this driver is not using the modern dev_pm_ops form of the
> suspend/resume callbacks, so maybe it just hasn't aged gracefully--and
> possibly was never supported properly in the first place.
> 

These are called from platform_legacy_suspend/platform_legacy_resume.
It looks like the functions are not needed.

(I am not an expert on pm, I just querried my Smatch Cross Function
Database which is awesome).

regards,
dan carpenter

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: delete unneeded call to platform_get_drvdata
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:15:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520091526.GF15585@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520083531.GH2413@norris-Latitude-E6410>

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 01:35:31AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > >  static int bf5xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *dev)
> > > >  {
> > > > -       struct bf5xx_nand_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
> > > > -
> > > >         return 0;
> > >
> > > In this case bf5xx_nand_suspend/resume could be removed?
> > 
> > I don't know.  It looks like it is intentional to have a definition that
> > returns an indication of success?  The complete set of definitions is:
> 
> I'm not so sure. I believe suspend/resume works just fine without the
> hooks, if those hooks would otherwise be doing nothing. It is notable
> that this driver is not using the modern dev_pm_ops form of the
> suspend/resume callbacks, so maybe it just hasn't aged gracefully--and
> possibly was never supported properly in the first place.
> 

These are called from platform_legacy_suspend/platform_legacy_resume.
It looks like the functions are not needed.

(I am not an expert on pm, I just querried my Smatch Cross Function
Database which is awesome).

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-17  6:32 [PATCH 1/2] mtd: delete unneeded call to platform_get_drvdata Julia Lawall
2014-05-17  6:32 ` Julia Lawall
2014-05-17  6:32 ` Julia Lawall
2014-05-17  7:07 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-05-17  7:07   ` Fabio Estevam
2014-05-17  7:07   ` Fabio Estevam
2014-05-17  7:12   ` Julia Lawall
2014-05-17  7:12     ` Julia Lawall
2014-05-17  7:12     ` Julia Lawall
2014-05-20  8:35     ` Brian Norris
2014-05-20  8:35       ` Brian Norris
2014-05-20  8:35       ` Brian Norris
2014-05-20  9:15       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-05-20  9:15         ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-20  9:15         ` Dan Carpenter

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