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

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Greg KH wrote:

> 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?

Oh, yes.  I had forgotten about that.  Then this patch doesn't need to 
be marked for stable either.

> >  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?

It is, but there's a reasonable amount of real change as well.

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

Yes, that would be great.  Thanks.

Alan Stern

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