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Re: [PATCH v1 8/8] wireless: wl1271_sdio: enable Runtime PM

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On 07/09/2010 14:15, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
>>> Enable runtime pm for the wl1271 SDIO device.
>>>
>>> We request power whenever the WLAN interface is brought up,
>>> and release it after the WLAN interface is taken down.
>>>
>>> As a result, power is released immediately after probe returns,
>>> since at that point power has not been explicitly requested yet
>>> (i.e. the WLAN interface is still down).
>> [...]
>>> @@ -233,6 +241,8 @@ static int __devinit wl1271_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
>>>
>>>       sdio_set_drvdata(func, wl);
>>>
>>> +     pm_runtime_put_noidle(&func->dev);
>>
>> I find this a little odd and confusing as this is releasing the
>> reference taken by mmc core from inside the function driver.
> 
> This is done in order to still support function drivers that are not
> aware of runtime pm (same approach was taken in the PCI implementation
> of runtime pm).

Best to do the same as PCI then.

David
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