Re: context_loss_count error value

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On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:41 +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:24 +0200, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> 
> > Looking closer at the code, a zero return happens only when
> > 
> > 1) no hwmod associated to omap_device
> > 2) no power domain associated to hwmod
> > 3) power domain has not (yet) lost context
> > 
> > None of these are actually error conditions per-se, and in all cases, it
> > indidates that context has not been lost (or we can't tell if context
> > has been lost.) 
> 
> If the pm code cannot tell whether the context has been lost or not, the
> driver must assume it has been lost, do you agree? If so, the driver
> must handle zero return value differently, and always restore context.
> 
> > So I think the current code is correct.
> 
> How is it correct if it returns an error even if no error has happened
> =)? Either the code or the documentation is wrong.
> 
> How about the wrap-around case? Does the loss count go back to zero?

Any conclusion on this?

 Tomi


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