Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] PM / Sleep: introduce dpm_for_each_dev

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Aug 18 2012 - 16:27:46 EST


On Saturday, August 18, 2012, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > My question was about the number of current users of it. Sorry for not
> > being clear.
>
> Sorry for misunderstanding your question.
>
> >
> > If there are no more anticipated users than the current only one, please
> > drop the unused (void *) argument. We can always extend it in the future
> > if need be and for now passing that NULL every time is just pointless.
>
> One usage is to get statistics info about devices for debug purpose,
> so the parameter is needed to return something.

So, what's the name of the _second_ function using dpm_for_each_dev()?

I don't see any and device_cache_fw_images() in [3/3] clearly passes
NULL as the first argument.

> > And please fold [2/3] into [3/3] in this series.
>
> IMO, it is better to split them to avoid coupling between fw loader and
> device PM.
>
> Looks you agreed on the patch,

On the idea, not on the actual code. I told you what I wanted to to change in
it, didn't I?

> and Greg has added the
> patch into his driver-core next tree to fix -next build failure, so could
> you just let them be that?

-next is not cast in stone, you can replace patches in it with other ones
if need be.

Thanks,
Rafael
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