Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: Protect runtime_auto check by #ifdef CONFIG_PM
From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Mar 22 2016 - 11:13:21 EST
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 10:21 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > I don't see any point in resuming the device just in order to collect
> > operating statistics. If it was already suspended then it wasn't
> > operating, so there will be no statistics to collect.
>
> Indeed. In that case the point is moot. But it is correct to ask
> the core whether the device is autosuspended at that point rather
> than keep a private flag if you can.
That's why we have pm_runtime_status_suspended().
> All that is relevant only if the upper layers ask for information
> that the driver cannot provide without resuming the device.
> Those are fundamentally different issues.
Of course.
Alan Stern