[PATCH 2/2] iio: mma8452: use runtime pm instead of device specific autosleep

From: Martin Kepplinger
Date: Mon Mar 14 2016 - 07:29:30 EST


What is this autosleep?
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It slows down the device after x seconds of inactivity. The thing is, we have
really achieved almost the same by runtime pm.

differnces are:

autosleep
* uses more power during inactivity
* the first read after inactivity slightly faster
* complicated to understand for the user
* no documented sysfs interface (afaik)
* complicated to read and maintain

runtime pm
* already merged in mma8452
* uses less power during inactivity
* first read after inactivity slower
* easy to use. well documented.
* easy to maintain and understand

The two approaches solve the same problem. runtime pm has more advantages
than autosleep and comes quite close to it's behaviour anyways. As I see it,
autosleep, even if somehow supported, would never be used anyways.

So resolve this issue by "ignoring" autosleep.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Martina Kepplinger <martina.novakovic@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c b/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
index d0eeba0..375e45f 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
*
* 7-bit I2C slave address 0x1c/0x1d (pin selectable)
*
- * TODO: orientation events, autosleep
+ * TODO: orientation events
*/

#include <linux/module.h>
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2.1.4