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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] console, serial8250: Disable PM and DMA ops
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:50:55 +0300
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On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 11:00 -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> [180522 21:54]:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
> > wrote:
> > > * Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> [180517 16:38]:
> > > > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > * Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> [180516
> > > > > 10:49]:
> > > > > The idea breaking PM seems silly to me considering that we've
> > > > > had
> > > > > it working for years already.
> > > > 
> > > > Same question  / note. World is much more complex than just
> > > > being OMAP.
> > > 
> > > Sorry but you are making assumptions about hardware being powered
> > > on
> > > all the time.
> > 
> > Nope, other way around. The so called "support" _prevents_ our
> > hardware to go to sleep.
> 
> Hmm sorry now I'm all confused what issues you're having.
> 
> I thought you said earlier the issue was that you wanted to keep
> the console enabled all the time and never idle?

Yes, for kernel console.
To be clear, if user supplies "console=ttySx" it keeps powered on
always. But if there is no such parameter, we are fine with RPM.

Letting kernel console do power management on the systems without
irq_safe hack is dangerous in terms of loosing important data (crash, or
some other stuff which needs atomic context: kgdb?).

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy