On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > 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. Your points were all well taken. I'll revise the patches and submit them. Do you think it's too late for them to appear in the next merge window? Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
