On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Kevin Hilman wrote: > I understand how this works, but frankly I'm still a bit fuzzy on why. > > I guess I'm still missing a good understanding of what "interfering with a > system power transition" means, and why a runtime suspend qualifies as > interfering but not a runtime resume.
These are good questions. Rafael implemented this design originally; my contribution was only to warn him of the potential for problems. Therefore he should explain the rationale for the design. > More specifically, the reason for $SUBJECT patch is precisely because a > runtime resume is allowed, a runtime suspend is not, and thus a system > power transititon is prevented. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
