This is just a resend of [1]. This resend just adds the back story behind the need for such a generic API as a cover letter. Also added my SoB tag to Ulf's patch. Some of the newer Qualcomm platforms support handing of the control of some of the GDSCs (implemented as power domains in Linux) to some device firmware. The idea behind such approach is that the firmware knows best when such a power domain can be powered off or not and leads most of the time to better power consumption. At this point, if such GDSC provides HW control support, the current implementation is switching to HW control right after the GDSC gets powered on and it is left in HW control mode until right before the request for power off is done. This needs to remain as is for now, as we do not know for sure what each firmware expects from its related GDSCs. For example, the venus driver expects the codec GDSCs to remain always in HW control mode, otherwise the firmware would crush. But in some cases, the consumer driver needs to switch back and forth. And the explanation for such case is when a driver needs to interract with the device (e.g. reading status bits) and the firmware doesn't guarantee the GDSC will be enabled when in HW mode. Therefore, the consumer would need to switch back to SW mode, do its thing, and then switch again back to HW mode. This is where the patch from Ulf comes in. It allows consumers that actually need to control the HW/SW mode to do so. The GDSC patch just implemets the set_hwmode op and sets it for each GDSC that provides HW control mode. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230627104033.3345659-1-abel.vesa@xxxxxxxxxx/ Abel Vesa (1): clk: qcom: gdsc: Add support for set_hwmode_dev Ulf Hansson (1): PM: domains: Allow devices attached to genpd to be managed by HW drivers/base/power/domain.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/clk/qcom/gdsc.c | 22 +++++++++++++ include/linux/pm_domain.h | 15 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 103 insertions(+) -- 2.34.1
