Re: Non-enumerable devices on USB and other enumerable buses

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:27:58PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Mark Brown wrote:

> >  or those for getting platform data to a device when it
> > does enumerate.

> ?  I can't make any sense out of that comment.  For one thing, why do
> you need to send platform data to a device?  (It's obvious that a
> _driver_ would need to use platform data; it's not so clear that a
> _device_ would.)

The device in this context is a running instance of the driver.

> > > (The second proposal also has the advantage that the power-on code may 
> > > be shared between the driver and the subsystem.)

> > Can you explain in more detail please, I don't follow?

> Let's say the subsystem powers up the device when the bus is first
> registered, so that the device can be detected and enumerated.  Let's
> also say that the driver wants to power-off and power-on the device
> from time to time, as part of normal runtime PM.  Then instead of
> having its own power-on routine (which would be code duplication), the
> driver can simply call the subsystem's power-on routine.  (Of course,
> this would mean that the routine would no longer be run-once.)

Oh, OK.  I don't think that's a meaningful difference, the driver is
going to have the code and be able to reuse it one way or another
anyway.  In many cases if the device has been in a low power idle mode a
slightly difference sequence would be needed anyway.

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