Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: tegra: add suspend-resume support

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why can't we just use the device suspend/resume functions rather than
> global (syscore) suspend/resume functions? Presumably this is to ensure
> that all other drivers suspend first, then the pinctrl driver does, and
> the reverse for resume. Can't we rely on deferred probe to ensure that
> instead?
>
> To make that work, we might need every affected driver to define a dummy
> pinmux state in DT that references the pinctrl driver, to make sure they
> all get probed after the pinctrl driver.

Hm that reminds me of that policy change I suggested a while back to
do this instead of using hogs where possible.

It has the nice side-effect that when we inspect the debugfs info
all pins will be properly owned by respective consuming device.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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