Re: [PATCH] EHCI: update PM methods in ehci-tegra.c

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:58:39PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as1547) rearranges the Power Management parts of the
> ehci-tegra driver to match the conventions used in other EHCI platform
> drivers.  In particular, the controller should not be powered down by
> the root hub's suspend routine; the controller's power level should be
> managed by the controller's own PM methods.
> 
> The end result of the patch is that the standard ehci_bus_suspend()
> and ehci_bus_resume() methods can be used instead of special-purpose
> routines.  The driver now uses the standard dev_pm_ops methods instead
> of legacy power management.  Since there is no supported wakeup
> mechanism for the controller, runtime suspend is forbidden by default
> (this can be overridden via sysfs, if desired).
> 
> These adjustments are needed in order to make ehci-tegra compatible
> with recent changes to the USB core.  The core now checks the root
> hub's status following bus suspend; if the controller is automatically
> powered down during bus suspend then the check will fail and the root
> hub will be resumed immediately.  Doing the controller power-down in a
> separate method avoids this problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
> This patch should be applied to whichever trees have commit
> 879d38e6bc36d73b0ac40ec9b0d839fda9fa8b1a (USB: fix race between
> root-hub suspend and remote wakeup).  Since that patch was marked for 
> -stable, I'm marking this one as well.

No, that patch wasn't marked for stable in the end.  I guess it was
because this controller wasn't working properly yet with that change?

>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-tegra.c |  375 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 195 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)

That's also a bit "big" for a stable patch.  But it looks like the
majority of this is moving the code around?

Should this go in for 3.4-final as
879d38e6bc36d73b0ac40ec9b0d839fda9fa8b1a will make it into 3.4?

thanks,

greg k-h
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