Re: [PATCH 2/8] PM: core: Add NS varients of EXPORT[_GPL]_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS and runtime pm equiv

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 11:31:45 +0000
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:13:25 +0100
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 12:39 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:  
> > >
> > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:37:57 +0100
> > > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Rafael,    
> > > > CC: linux-pm    
> > >
> > > Oops. Stupid omission on my part, sorry about that!
> > >    
> > > >
> > > > On 2/20/2022 7:15 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:    
> > > > > From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > As more drivers start to use namespaces, we need to have varients of these
> > > > > useful macros that allow the export to be in a particular namespace.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> > > > > Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
> > > > > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>    
> > > >
> > > > I'd rather route this through linux-pm unless you have dependent changes.    
> > >
> > > Ok.
> > >
> > > The kxsd9 patch (4) is dependent on other changes queued for
> > > the merge window in IIO. If we want to do it through linux-pm I'd
> > > love it if we can manage to get the ground work in for the coming merge window.
> > >
> > > So options are:
> > >
> > > 1) This patch alone via linux-pm and I queue the users up for next cycle
> > >    Fine by me but always awkward to have infrastructure with no users.
> > > 2) First 3 patches via linux-pm so we have a user (scd30) in a low churn
> > >    driver and I'll queue the rest for 5.19.  Fine by me as well.
> > >    That goes on cleanly on 5.17-rc1 and there is nothing else in my review
> > >    queue touching that driver.    
> > 
> > That would work for me.  
> 
> Great.  Let's do that then.  Are you fine picking them from this thread, or
> would you like me to resend with just those 3 patches as a fresh series?
Hi Rafael,

I've not heard back from you, so have been assuming you'd pick those first
3 patches up from this series.  Is that a correct assumption?

Thanks,

Jonathan

> 
> >   
> > > I'm also interested to hear your view on the discussion going on in reply
> > > to the cover letter. Specifically Paul suggested we 'only' have the
> > > namespaced versions of these macros.    
> > 
> > Well, I'm a bit afraid that providing the namespaced versions only
> > would slow down the adoption.  
> 
> Agreed, that's a concern and as Paul was happy with the route of
> adding NS and perhaps looking eventually at dropping the non NS variant
> I think we can move forward with this patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>