Re: [PATCH 07/24] ARM: shmobile: Drop dev_irq_safe from r8a7779 genpd config

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On 11 June 2014 20:13, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The dev_irq_safe configuration is redundant, genpd don't have any
>> special treatmeant for handling it.  Let's remove it.
>
> Why?
>
> The genpd core needs to handle irq_safe properly eventully (right now it
> just doesn't call power_off/power_on callbacks, but that needs to be
> implmenented.  c.f commit 0aa2a22169)
>
> If we remove these flags from platforms, we're taking away information
> that the platform maintainers have specified tha will be useful when
> full support is avialble.

For sure this is needed in _some_ form. But before we even figured out
how to support irq_safe genpd's, why even bother to support a
configuration for it?

Currently I think it good enough to use the per device irq_safe
option, and then let's see how handling of these devices evolves.

Kind regards
Uffe
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