On Friday, September 24, 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Kevin Hilman wrote: ... > > > > You're trying to fight the runtime-PM design instead of using it as it > > was intended. We already have an API for starting a resume from > > interrupt context, and that's what you should use. > > It may seem like I'm trying to fight the design, but I'm actually trying > to find ways to use it. I want to use the API (and we're using it > successfully in most of our drivers now.) The problem is only in a few > of these corner cases where using it introduces significant changes from > previous behavior like introducing long, unbounded windows for missed > interrupts. This really sounds to me like you need _noirq() runtime PM callbacks and some framework around them. I'm not fundamentally against that, but it will require some time to introduce, if we decide that it's really necessary. I need to think a bit more about that, thanks for the example. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
