On Thursday, September 23, 2010, Alan Stern wrote: > Rafael and Greg: Hi, > The following series of emails contains my proposed patches for the > runtime PM core, leading up to a general "autosuspend" implementation. > This is going to be one of those difficult cross-subsystem things, > because the first patch in the series affects sysfs whereas the rest > affect PM. (In addition, there are two other patches I'm not going to > include here that update USB to take advantage of the new PM > facilities. Ultimately there will be changes to the SCSI, block, and > IDE layers as well -- they're not written yet.) > > We can decide on the best plan for merging these later on. For now I > would simply like to post them for review and comments. These are not > yet necessarily in final form, but I think they are pretty close. They > apply on top of 2.6.36-rc5. > > Alan Stern > > > 1/7: Add sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group() routines > for later use by PM and USB. > > 2/7: Move the runtime PM accounting routines away from the functions > that do the actual work. > > 3/7: Replace runtime PM boolean arguments with bitflags. > > 4/7: Merge the synchronous and asynchronous runtime PM routines. > > 5/7: Regroup the public entry points for runtime PM into three > simple functions. > > 6/7: Add the "no_callbacks" flag. > > 7/7: Implement autosuspend. The series generally looks good to me, except for a few comments, mostly related to the names of various things I sent in my replies to the specific patches. Thanks, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
