Re: [PATCH 2/3] [SCSI]: runtime resume parent for child's system-resume

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Dec 14 2011 - 11:51:46 EST


On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Lin Ming wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [Patch description from Alan Stern]
> >
> > If a child device was runtime-suspended when a system suspend began,
> > then there will be nothing to prevent its parent from
> > runtime-suspending as soon as it is woken up during the system resume.
> > Then when the time comes to resume the child, the resume will fail
> > because the parent is already back at low power.
> >
> > On the other hand, there are some devices which should remain at low
> > power across an entire suspend-resume cycle.  The details depend on the
> > device and the platform.
> >
> > This suggests that the PM core is not the right place to solve the
> > problem.  One possible solution is for the subsystem or device driver
> > to call pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent) at the start of the
> > system-resume procedure and pm_runtime_put_sync(dev->parent) at the
> > end.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> May I add your SOB?

You can add: Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Did you test this? Does it do what you want?

Alan Stern

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