Re: [PATCH] PM: sleep: Add kerneldoc comments to some functions

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon May 27 2019 - 05:39:57 EST


On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 8:03 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > +/**
> > + * pm_suspend_via_firmware - Check if platform firmware will suspend the system.
> > + *
> > + * To be called during system-wide power management transitions to sleep states.
> > + *
> > + * Return 'true' if the platform firmware is going to be invoked at the end of
> > + * the system-wide power management transition in progress in order to complete
> > + * it.
> > + */
>
> Ok, so this only returns true if the firmware gets invoked for this
> particular transition we are currently in.

Right.

> That was my main confusion here.
> Also any chance to add an example of why this might matter?

Sure, I will send an update shortly.