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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, San Mehat <san@google.com>,
	Roger Quadros <roger.quadros@nokia.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Gao Yunpeng <yunpeng.gao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 8/8] wireless: wl1271_sdio: enable Runtime PM
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:20:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C86BA9B.7030406@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimgk9JM_c20vcZegBufGDx07PBYK_+omMxBMZq-@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/09/2010 14:15, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> wrote:
>> Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
>>> Enable runtime pm for the wl1271 SDIO device.
>>>
>>> We request power whenever the WLAN interface is brought up,
>>> and release it after the WLAN interface is taken down.
>>>
>>> As a result, power is released immediately after probe returns,
>>> since at that point power has not been explicitly requested yet
>>> (i.e. the WLAN interface is still down).
>> [...]
>>> @@ -233,6 +241,8 @@ static int __devinit wl1271_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
>>>
>>>       sdio_set_drvdata(func, wl);
>>>
>>> +     pm_runtime_put_noidle(&func->dev);
>>
>> I find this a little odd and confusing as this is releasing the
>> reference taken by mmc core from inside the function driver.
> 
> This is done in order to still support function drivers that are not
> aware of runtime pm (same approach was taken in the PCI implementation
> of runtime pm).

Best to do the same as PCI then.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 11:29 [PATCH v1 0/8] SDIO Runtime PM Support Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] mmc: sdio: fully reconfigure oldcard on resume Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 2/8] mmc: propagate power save/restore ops return value Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 3/8] sdio: add power_restore support Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 4/8] mmc: add general Runtime PM support Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 5/8] sdio: add general runtime " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 6/8] sdio: enable Runtime PM for SDIO cards Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 7/8] sdio: enable Runtime PM for SDIO functions Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-14 19:27   ` Chris Ball
2010-09-14 19:32     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 11:29 ` [PATCH v1 8/8] wireless: wl1271_sdio: enable Runtime PM Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 13:02   ` David Vrabel
2010-09-07 13:15     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2010-09-07 22:20       ` David Vrabel [this message]
2010-09-08 17:40   ` Luciano Coelho
2010-09-08 17:52 ` [PATCH v1 0/8] SDIO Runtime PM Support Luciano Coelho

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