Re: [PATCH] PM / domains: Kconfig: always enable PM_RUNTIME when genpd enabled

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Fri Nov 14 2014 - 02:27:05 EST


On 13 November 2014 23:28, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It makes little sense to use generic power domains without runtime PM.
> Also, since the complexities of handling the !PM_RUNTIME case are
> causing more trouble and confusion than they're worth, let's simplify
> the world by making genpd always enable runtime PM.

I do agree that your above statement seems reasonable, even if can't
really tell if that would break some SOCs use-cases.

My concern is though, that I fear we will be taking short-cuts in
genpd that might bite us later on, but I might be wrong.

The reason for my concern is that on every other place, like in the
subsystem level, driver core, PM core and of course in drivers - we
need to cope with all the combinations of CONFIG_PM_SLEEP and
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP. So theoretically, why shouldn't genpd be able to do
that as well?

>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/power/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/Kconfig b/kernel/power/Kconfig
> index 3d39cc0228e9..2a8c64d0a43c 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ config PM_CLK
>
> config PM_GENERIC_DOMAINS
> bool
> - depends on PM
> + select PM_RUNTIME

Shouldn't we actually depend on PM_RUNTIME instead?

>
> config WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT
> bool "Enable workqueue power-efficient mode by default"
> --
> 2.1.3
>

Kind regards
Uffe
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