On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 of March 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Montag 24 März 2008 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > > -/*
> > > +/**
> > > + * struct pm_ops - device PM callbacks
> > > + *
> > > * Several driver power state transitions are externally visible, affecting
> > > * the state of pending I/O queues and (for drivers that touch hardware)
> > > * interrupts, wakeups, DMA, and other hardware state. There may also be
> > > @@ -122,6 +124,254 @@ typedef struct pm_message {
> > > * to the rest of the driver stack (such as a driver that's ON gating off
> > > * clocks which are not in active use).
> > > *
> > > + * The externally visible transitions are handled with the help of the following
> > > + * callbacks included in this structure:
> > > + *
> > > + * @prepare: Prepare the device for the upcoming transition, but do NOT change
> > > + * its hardware state. Prevent new children of the device from being
> > > + * registered and prevent new calls to the probe method from being made
> >
> > How is a driver supposed to prevent calls to probe()? You can block in probe()
> > or you can fail it, but how do you prevent it from being called? User space
> > can trigger probe via sysfs.
>
> I overlooked that.
The driver isn't supposed to prevent calls to its own probe(). The
comment means that the subsystem -- or the rest of the kernel generally
-- is supposed to avoid binding a driver to the device (thereby calling
the probe routine), assuming the device isn't already bound.
I don't expect this sort of thing to be very common. Mostly it happens
when new kernel modules are loaded and new drivers are registered; we
will have to block module loading during a sleep transition. It also
happens when the user writes to a driver's "bind" attribute in sysfs;
the code there will have to block during a sleep transition.
Alan Stern
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