Re: [PATCH v3 14/17] media: i2c: imx290: Initialize runtime PM before subdev

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 04:44:51PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Initializing the subdev before runtime PM means that no subdev
> initialization can interact with the runtime PM framework. This can be
> problematic when modifying controls, as the .s_ctrl() handler commonly
> calls pm_runtime_get_if_in_use(). These code paths are not trivial,
> making the driver fragile and possibly causing subtle bugs.
> 
> To make the subdev initialization more robust, initialize runtime PM
> first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Acked-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
> ---

This patch results in

Error log:
<stdin>:1517:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
drivers/media/i2c/imx290.c:1090:12: error: 'imx290_runtime_suspend' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
 1090 | static int imx290_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev)
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/media/i2c/imx290.c:1082:12: error: 'imx290_runtime_resume' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
 1082 | static int imx290_runtime_resume(struct device *dev)

if PM runtime support is disabled( alpha:allmodconfig, csky:allmodconfig,
and others).

Guenter

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