>>> What this patch does it make sure that the bus is operation when the >>> card is created. In usual cases, this is a no-op, this just helps with >>> corner test cases. It's not plugging a major hole in the pm_runtime >>> support, just fixing a programming sequence that was not tested before. >> >>> One possible objection is that we don't keep the reference and the bus >>> active until all components are probed. I tried doing this at the ASoC >>> core level, but that breaks all kinds of devices that have their own >>> quirky way of dealing with pm_runtime - specifically HDaudio and HDMI. >>> That's why I added this resume here. >> >>> Makes sense? >> >> Ish. Ugh, right. So it's not fixing anything really, it's mainly >> papering over cracks where things are being missed. In any case it's >> not doing any harm and it helps things for now. > > You got it right. There are additional patches that were sent to use > pm_runtime_resume_and_get() on set_jack, and other clear cases that were > missed, but this is more of a blanket "do not harm" resume in case codec > drivers are missing something. please wait for merges, we're chasing two regressions with nonsensical mixer values numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='PGA4.0 4 Master Capture Volume' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---R--,values=2 : values=on,on | dBscale-min=-50.00dB,step=1.00dB,mute=1 and a spurious log that we missed: snd-soc-dummy snd-soc-dummy: Runtime PM usage count underflow!