Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: Protect runtime_auto check by #ifdef CONFIG_PM

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 10:21 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > I don't see any point in resuming the device just in order to collect 
> > operating statistics.  If it was already suspended then it wasn't 
> > operating, so there will be no statistics to collect.
> 
> Indeed. In that case the point is moot. But it is correct to ask
> the core whether the device is autosuspended at that point rather
> than keep a private flag if you can.

That's why we have pm_runtime_status_suspended().

> All that is relevant only if the upper layers ask for information
> that the driver cannot provide without resuming the device.
> Those are fundamentally different issues.

Of course.

Alan Stern