On Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:30:00 PM CET Miquel Raynal wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > > > If that's really the case, then I can see how one device and it's > > > children are suspended and the irq for it is disabled but the providing > > > devices (clk, regulator, bus controller, etc.) are still fully active > > > and not suspended but in fact completely usable and able to service > > > interrupts. If that all makes sense, then I would answer the question > > > with a definitive "yes it's all fine" because the clk consumer could be > > > in the NOIRQ phase of its suspend but the clk provider wouldn't have > > > even started suspending yet when clk_disable_unprepare() is called. > > > > That's a very good summary and address my concern, I still question this > > patch correctness (and many others that carry out clk operations in S2R > > NOIRQ phase), they may work but do not tell me they are rock solid given > > your accurate summary above. > > I understand your concern but I don't see any alternative right now > and a deep rework of the PM core to respect such dependency is not > something that can be done in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe you don't need to rework anything. :-) Have you considered using device links? Thanks, Rafael