Re: About run time power management in linux

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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Raj Kumar wrote:

> Hi,
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> yeah, mostly run time power management will be helpful for embedded devices where the power management is
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> crucial because then individual peripherals can be suspended and it saves a power. Because with run time power
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> management clock and power domains are easier to manage. 
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> But the thing is if driver goes for runtime_suspend and runtime_resume,
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> then is the runtime_idle is also mandatory to implement? because i have seen if run time suspend is failed due to
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> EAGAIN and EBUSY, it will notify  via  __pm_runtime_idle i guess this notification is valid for bus drivers.

runtime_idle is not mandatory.

> The another question is suppose there are multiple power domains, then with run time power management require
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> one bus driver corresponding to each power domain? right?

No, you can use the same driver for multiple power domains.

Alan Stern

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