On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 07:05:48AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:

> > This patch is wrong, I though the comments were clear. All entry points to 
> > find
> > the device must be deleted before we commit to shutting down the device.
> > 
> > You need to figure out some other way to solve your problem.
> 
> Please be more specific regarding flows you think will be wrong with
> this patch, you must agree that the current code is broken even w/o
> runtime pm.

No, I don't agree. Accessing dev->name is OK after the device_del.

What devicde_del does is fence off all sorts of ways to access the
device, eg sysfs files, bus registrations, etc, etc. That absolutely
must be done before calling tpm_suspend.

Jason

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