Hi Ulf,
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26 January 2015 at 17:16, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Add a driver for transparent busses that don't need a real driver, but
>> where the bus controller is part of a PM domain, or under the control of
>> a functional clock. Typically, the bus controller's PM domain and/or
>> clock must be enabled for child devices connected to the bus (either
>> on-SoC or externally) to function.
>>
>> Hence the sole purpose of this driver is to enable its clock and PM
>> domain (if exist(s)), which are specified in the DT and managed from
>> platform and PM domain code, and to probe for child devices.
>>
>> Due to the child-parent relationship with devices connected to the bus,
>> PM domain and clock state transitions are handled in the correct order.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Ulrich Hecht <ulrich.hecht+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/bus/simple-pm-bus.c
>> +static int simple_pm_bus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> +{
>> + struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
>> +
>> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
>> +
>> + pm_runtime_enable(&pdev->dev);
>> +
>> + if (np)
>> + of_platform_populate(np, NULL, NULL, &pdev->dev);
>> +
>
> I am not sure my comments is valid in this initial step. Yet, you
> state in the DT documentation, that this driver supports clocks and PM
> domains.
>
> How you are going add that support it quite interesting. :-) I also
The clock can be controlled through e.g. pm_clk domain (pm_clk_notifier
and pm_clk_{suspend,resume}()) or genpd (GENPD_FLAG_PM_CLK,
which you have added yourself ;-)
> especially interested how the interaction (child to parents) through
> runtime PM will look like.
When a child is to be runtime-resumed, the core make sure the parent is
runtime-resumed. When all children have been runtime-suspended, the parent
is runtime-suspended. This is already working. This patch series is the
only missing piece: without a driver that calls pm_runtime_enable(), the
parent is not runtime-managed.
> Overall, I like the idea in patchset, but I would like to understand a
> bit more around the above.
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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