Re: [PATCH 00/11] drivers: Add Pinctrl PM support

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>]

+ Linus W. (pinctrl maintainer)

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Hebbar,
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 03:43:00PM +0530, Hebbar Gururaja wrote:
>> By optionally putting the pins into sleep state in the suspend [or in
>> runtime_suspend] callback we can accomplish two things.
>> - One is to minimize current leakage from pins and thus save power,
>> - second, we can prevent the IP from driving pins output in an
>> uncontrolled manner, which may happen if the power domain drops the
>> domain regulator.
>> 
>> These states can be specified in the DT blob and corresponding driver
>> can pick these states during probe & set the related values during
>> idle/suspend.
>> 
>> Not all drivers support/has idle state. Drivers like i2c, spi, mmc has
>> idle states and hence these drivers are updated to support all the
>> three states
>> - default  : during regular operation
>> - idle : when the module is in idle state
>> - sleep : when the module is in suspend state
>> 
>> For those drivers which doesn't support/have idle state (at least at
>> the moment), only default & sleep state is added.
>
> As with the original introduction of pinctrl states my question is: "Can
> all of this be handled in the driver/bus core instead of adding a lot
> of boilerplate code to the individual drivers".

Yes, I had the same thought.

What's being handled here are either events related to runtime PM
(runtime suspend, runtime resume) or system PM (suspend/resume) so seems
appropriat to handle them in the PM core.

Kevin