Re: [PATCH V5 11/14] soc: tegra: pmc: Add generic PM domain support

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 11/02/16 10:37, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>>>
>>>> Why not make pm_genpd_remove() to behave as you describe for
>>>> pm_genpd_remove_tail()?
>>>> That's probably the only sane way to remove genpds anyhow!?
>>>
>>> Simply to offer flexibility. I could see that for some devices that have
>>> no dependencies between pm-domains and have a static list of pm-domains,
>>> they can simply call pm_genpd_remove() for a given pm-domain. However,
>>> that said, I can envision a case where a single pm-domain would be
>>> removed by itself and so may be there is no benefit?
>>
>> By the way, do you think that instead of passing the struct device * to
>> pm_genpd_remove(), we should just have a void *dev_id in the same way
>> the request_irq()/free_irq() work? In other words, it would allow people
>> to use the struct device or struct device_node, etc?
> 
> Hmm. Do you think that would make a difference for the power controller drivers?
> 
> I am thinking that genpd might perhaps benefit from being able to use
> the device pointer for other purposes as well!?
> Giving a void *, will prevent that, won't it?

Yes it will. Ok, let's stick with struct device for now.

Cheers
Jon