Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: EXYNOS: Support Suspend-to-RAM on EXYNOS5420

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On Friday 20 of December 2013 13:25:06 Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Friday 20 of December 2013 13:22:06 Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Abhilash Kesavan
> >> <kesavan.abhilash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Hi Sunil,
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:56 PM, sunil joshi <sjoshi.open@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Hi Abhilash,
> >> >> I saw another patch in chrome tree ..by Andrew Bresticker
> >> >> which may be relevant here ..
> >> >>
> >> >> Just wondering if you missed adding this ? or this is not needed ?
> >> >> You did not face any issue in getting core to suspend ?
> >> >
> >> > This has not been added for Exynos5250 in mainline yet. We did notice
> >> > that the system would fail to suspend on the rare occasion (~1% of the
> >> > time on exynos5250) when we repeatedly suspended and resumed the
> >> > system.
> >> >
> >> > I have not run s2r stress tests, but have had no issues suspending the
> >> > system in my limited testing. We can probably let this be for now as
> >> > the system would resume fine even on a failed suspend. I will do some
> >> > stress testing and then post if needed.
> >>
> >> Hold on, you're claiming that this patch you've posted has only seen
> >> very limited testing, and that you are aware of failures?
> >>
> >> Don't merge known-broken code into the mainline kernel.
> >
> > I'm afraid that a "failed suspend" does not really mean a failure here,
> > but let me wait for clarification of things I asked in another part of
> > this thread.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> Still, I expect code that enters the kernel to actually be tested.
> We've got way too much code just sitting there in broken state because
> whomever posted it didn't care about it working at the time, and
> nobody knows better because you can't actually use the code/driver on
> any real hardware with a mainline kernel.

Agreed.

Best regards,
Tomasz

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