On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 04:32:27PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 28-03-19 16:24, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 04:01:37PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > On 28-03-19 15:58, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:35:58PM +0100, David Müller wrote:
> > > > > Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 06:31:19PM +0100, David Müller wrote:

> > > > > > Any driver for device which is using PMC clock should take it into
> > > > > > consideration.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I agree that each driver should properly request the clocks and other
> > > > > resources needed.

> > > > Can you elaborate a bit more the case you are talking about?

> > > I think the board with igb ethernet controllers might
> > > just as well be handled the same way (I already checked it has usable
> > > DMI identifying info).
> > 
> > But am I right that in the case of igb we will loose power at suspend? 
> > Wouldn't
> > be better to patch the driver?
> 
> This is an industrial embedded PC, so it is not running on battery and
> I doubt it typically spends a lot of time in suspend at all.

Okay, but still from logical point of view wouldn't be better to fix the driver
for such case? At least I see benefits out of this approach: a) less hackish,
less quirk code; b) if this happens on non-industrial case it would be better
to have in the driver due to power consumption.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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