CCing some PM people, maybe they can comment?

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Rajendra Nayak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2012 06:20 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>
>> Do you know how the drivers should handle CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME=n?
>> Are they supposed to handle the error values returned by runtime PM
>> functions somehow, or should they use #ifdef CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME?
>
> hmm, I always though with CONFIG_RUNTIME_PM=n, the functions would
> be stubbed to return success and not failure. And the _pm_runtime_resume
> function indeed seems to return 1, which is not failure but just saying
> that your device is already active/enabled.
> The _pm_runtime_suspend and _pm_runtime_idle do return a -ENOSYS, which
> is something only returned when CONFIG_RUNTIME_PM=n, so if you really
> want to handle failing pm_runtime_put_sync cases, maybe you still can.
> But then, I don't know if there is anything you can do to recover from
> a failing pm_runtime_put_sync, except for warning the user maybe.
>
>> Both options sound a bit difficult to me... With the first one it's
>> difficult to see if there was an actual error and we should somehow
>> react to it, or is everything fine and we just shouldn't care about
>> runtime PM. The second one requires ifdefs in many places.

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