On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Brown wrote at Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:15 PM: >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:59:27PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Mark Brown >> >> > > For example with ASoC we'd sort all the components before the ASoC card >> > > without regard for their bus dependencies or any other dependencies they >> > > have (eg, their regulators). Since the ASoC card is a platform device >> > > it's likely to have registered early with no regard for where the buses >> > > the card needs are registered. I'd expect there's a reasonable chance >> > > it'll actually make things worse in the short term. >> >> > You can't just move everything after the card, you have to move >> > everything after the last device that was probed, and it only works if >> > nothing depends on any of the devices that are moved. >> >> Sorry, I said that the wrong way round due to trying to reply quickly - >> the card would be the thing that moves since that's the thing that >> actually does the suspend but we've *no* idea which device we need to >> move it after. Since all the function does is a direct move after or >> before a single device all we can do is pick one and pray that it's the >> right device. > > Colin, > > This thread seems to have died down; how should we make progress? > > It sounds like the suspend_irq solution is the current de-facto standard; > not optimal, but all we really have right now and already in use. I could > certainly see avoiding this solution if it was the first time it was > employed, but re-using it seems reasonable to me? > > Alternatively, are you attending either Linux Plumbers Conference or the > Kernel Summit? Mark implied this topic might well come up for discussion > there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make LPC due to a conflict. I don't think I'll be able to make it. > (and you'd mentioned having the subsystem maintainers weigh in on this; > which sub-system; IRQ, power, I2C, ...?) If Ben says its OK, its fine with me. Or maybe Arnd wants to weigh in? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
