Re: [GIT PULL] PM updates for 2.6.33

Linus Torvalds
2009-12-07T06:15:31Z

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> And drivers that want to do things asynchronously don't need to register
> or worry: all they do is literally [...]

Side note: for specific bus implementations, you obviously don't have to
even expose the choice. Things like the whole "suspend_late" and
"resume_early" phases don't make sense for USB devices, and the USB core
layer don't even expose those to the various USB drivers.

The same is true of the prepare_suspend/suspend split I'm proposing: I
suspect that for something like USB, it would make most sense to just do
normal node suspend in prepare_suspend, which would do everything
asynchronously. Only USB hub devices would get involved at the later
'suspend()' phase.

So I'm not suggesting that "all drivers" would necessarily even need
changing in order to take advantage of asynchronous behavior.

You could change just the _core_ USB layer would do everything
automatically for USB devices, and now USB devices would automatically
suspend asynchronously not because the generic device layer knows about
it, but because the USB bus layer chose to do that "async_run()" on the
leaf node suspend functions (or rather: a helper function that calls the
leaf-node suspend, and then does the 'up_read()' call on the parent
lock: the actual usb driverrs would never know about any of this).

Linus