Re: Runtime PM: Idle notification

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Sorry for the delay.

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Mahalingam, Nithish wrote:
> > Shouldn't we just return success if power.runtime_status == RPM_SUSPENDED? I 
> > know it does not make a difference in the runtime PM core as return value for 
> > the idle callbacks are never checked. But what if someone wants to use idle 
> > callback API explicitly?

In that case the return value of your _idle will depend on the caller who
actually uses the return value.  The PM core doesn't care.

> Also I do understand returning success is not a clean solution, I am just 
> trying to understand what might be the right thing to in this scenario.

That really depends on your bus type/ device type/ device class and the
driver in question.

Rafael
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