Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] i2c: i801: Improve disabling runtime pm

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> > > I dunno if it's being discussed, but with this you effectively allow user to
> > > override the setting. It may screw things up AFAIU the comment above.
> > > 
> > No, this hasn't been discussed. At least not now. Thanks for the hint.
> > This attribute is writable for the root user, so we could argue that
> > the root user has several options to break the system anyway.
> 
> But it will mean the side effect on this driver and typical (root-run) system
> application (systemd like?) should care now the knowledge about this
> side-effect. I do not think it is desired behaviour. But I'm not a maintainer
> and I commented here just to make everybody understand the consequences of the
> change.

Jean, are you still fine with this patch then?

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