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

[Charles Keepax]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 10:33:53AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * 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?
> 

Should the provider driver not know its state will be lost since
will have had its PM ops called, and it should be aware of the
state it was in. So doesn't it just need to restore that state on
resume? Feels a bit like we are over complicating this here.
Apologies if I am missing some here.

Thanks,
Charles