Re: [PATCH] PM: sleep: Add helpers to allow a device to remain powered-on

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:40 AM Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [PATCH] PM: sleep: Add helpers to allow a device to remain
> > powered-on
> >
> > On some platforms a device and its corresponding PM domain, may need to
> > remain powered-on during system wide suspend, to support various use
> > cases.
> > For example, when the console_suspend_enabled flag is unset for a serial
> > controller, the corresponding device may need to remain powered on.
> > Other use cases exists too.
> >
> > In fact, we already have the mechanism in the PM core to deal with these
> > kind of use cases. However, the current naming of the corresponding
> > functions/flags clearly suggests these should be use for system wakeup.
> > See device_wakeup_path(), device_set_wakeup_path and
> > dev->power.wakeup_path.
> >
> > As a way to extend the use of the existing mechanism, let's introduce two
> > new helpers functions, device_awake_path() and device_set_awake_path().
> > At this point, let them act as wrappers of the existing functions. Ideally,
> > when all users have been converted to use the new helpers, we may decide
> > to drop the old ones and rename the flag.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>

Applied as 6.6 material, thanks!