Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: bus: simple-pm-bus: Make clocks and power-domains optional

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Hi Tony,

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 7:24 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [211007 13:27]:
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 2:49 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Even without clocks and power domains configured, simple-pm-bus is still
> > > different from simple-bus as simple-pm-bus enables runtime PM for the bus
> > > driver.
> >
> > Which you need to have working Runtime PM for child devices, right? ;-)
>
> Right. And based on what I remember we simply cannot do pm_runtime_enable()
> for simple-bus without breaking tons of devices.

Why not? Do you have an example of what would break?
The only reason I created simple-pm-bus was because the DT people
objected to adding PM to simple-bus, as they considered it wrong
conceptually.  AFAIK this wouldn't have caused any actual breakage.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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