Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] drivercore: Bind/unbind power domain on probe/remove

[Stephen Boyd]

On 03/03, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On a number of platforms, devices are part of controllable power
> domains, which need to be enabled before such devices can be accessed
> and may be powered down when the device is idle to save some power.
> This means that on systems that support power domain control using
> generic power domains subsystem, it is necessary to add device to its
> power domain before binding a driver to it and remove it from its power
> domain after its driver is unbound to make sure that an unused device
> does not affect power domain state.
> 
> Since this is not limited to particular busses and specific
> archs/platforms, it is more convenient to do the above directly in
> driver core, just as done with pinctrl default configuration. This patch
> adds necessary code to really_probe() and __device_release_driver() to
> achieve this and maintain consistent stack-like ordering of operations
> happening when binding and unbinding a driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum,
hosted by The Linux Foundation
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/