Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pinctrl: Allow indicating loss of state across suspend/resume

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Fri Nov 03 2017 - 13:34:02 EST


* Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> [171103 17:04]:
> On 11/03/2017 09:11 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> The pinctrl provider is losing its state, hence these two patches.

OK

> > Anyways, the context lost flag should be managed in the PM core for
> > the device, so adding linux-pm and Rafael to Cc.
>
> I don't think it's that simple but sure, why not.

Just having bool context_lost in struct dev_pm_info would probably
be enough to allow drivers to deal with it. This flag could then
be set for a device by power domain related code that knows if
context got lost.

Anybody got better ideas?

Regards,

Tony