Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] introduce device async actions mechanism

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On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > That looks quite complicated at first sight, but asynchronous resume with
> > completions can be done in a relatively simple patch.  I've got one, so
> > tomorow I'll post it for further discussion.
> 
> Okay.  I would think that managing the threads would account for most 
> of the complexity in either implementation, but I'll wait to see how 
> your approach works out.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> > 
> > 
> > PS
> > Did you have a chance to look at rev. 15 of the runtime PM patch
> > (http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/40306/)?
> 
> Yes, sorry for not getting back to you.  It looks okay.
> 
> The one thing I'm not sure of is the pm_runtime_put_noidle calls in 
> driver_probe_device and __device_release_driver.  It seems that we 
> should always call pm_runtime_put regardless of whether the probe 
> succeeds or not.

Did you mean pm_runtime_put_sync()?

> For example, the USB stack is set up to suspend devices that don't have
> a driver (this is handled at the bus subsystem level).  But if probing
> failed, there wouldn't be any idle callback and so the suspend wouldn't
> take place.

OK, I'll make this change.

Thanks,
Rafael
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