Re: [linux-pm] runtime PM usage_count during driver_probe_device()?

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On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Friday, July 01, 2011, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > >
> > >> OK, so the ->probe() part has been explained and makes sense, but I
> > >> would expect ->remove() to be similarily protected (as the documentation
> > >> states.)  But that is not the case.  Is that a bug?  If so, patch below
> > >> makes the code match the documentation.
> > >
> > > I suspect it is a bug, but it's hard to be sure.  It's so _blatantly_ 
> > > wrong that it looks like it was done deliberately.
> > 
> > heh
> 
> I seem to remeber having a problem with the pm_runtime_put_sync() after
> drv->remove(dev) ...
> 
> So the code in question was introduced by
> 
> commit e1866b33b1e89f077b7132daae3dfd9a594e9a1a
> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Apr 29 00:33:45 2011 +0200
> 
>     PM / Runtime: Rework runtime PM handling during driver removal
> 
> with a long changelog explaining the reason why.  Which seems to make sense. ;-)

Okay, that seems fair enough.  Looks like the documentation needs to be 
updated to match, though.

And we probably still want to make sure that access to the 
power/control and related attribute files is mutually exclusive with 
probe and remove.

Alan Stern

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