On Mon, 9 Feb 2015, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote: > This API creates a pm runtime slave type device which does not itself > participates in pm runtime but depends on the master devices to power > manage them. This makes no sense. How can a master device manage a slave device? Devices are managed by drivers, not by other devices. > These devices should have pm runtime callbacks. > > These devices (like clock) may not implement complete pm_runtime calls > such as pm_runtime_get/pm_runtime_put due to subsystems interaction > behaviour or any other reason. > > Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/pm.h | 1 + > include/linux/pm_runtime.h | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+) This patch is unacceptable because it does not update the runtime PM documentation file. Besides, doesn't the no_callbacks flag already do more or less what you want? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html