Re: [PATCH 4/5] HSI: nokia-modem: drop support for disabled pm

["Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 31 January 2016 17:10:52 Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:24:34PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 January 2016 02:19:46 Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > Disabled power management means, that the driver can only be
> > > used together with further out-of-tree kernel patches. There
> > > is no reason to support this in the mainline kernel and not
> > > having support for it means, that userspace can automatically
> > > detect if we are running kernel based power management.
> > 
> > I'm against this change. It will break support for (patched) Maemo and 
> > proprietary Nokia sscd modem daemon.
> 
> Do you have some links for this? So far my assumption was, that sscd
> requires /sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch, so you either need to
> patch sscd somehow, or patch the kernel to provide gpio-switch, or
> provide some kind of userspace wrapper.

I can either patch kernel to provide gpio-switch interface or use some
kind of user space hacks to provide this interface (e.g mount bind or
fuse fs mounted to that location).

> > Also you can export GPIOs manually via sysfs and touch that state. Which 
> > means that you can do power management with mainline kernel even if you 
> > set nokia-modem.pm=0.
> 
> Yeah... You export GPIOs manually. Did you actually try this? You

Yes, this is what preinit script is doing.

> will end up with exactly the same result as nokia-modem.pm=1, just
> with a few less symlinks. Also you have to make sure, that you
> actually exported the right gpios, since the global gpio number is
> dependent on the gpio-controller registration order.
> 
> > So please drop this patch.
> 
> Please provide facts, that Maemo can use pm=0 without additional
> kernel patches and does not work with pm=1.

Currently we use simple kernel driver which register gpio-switch
interface. Why to remove something which is 1) working and is 2) useful
for users & developers?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com