Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Functional dependencies between devices

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
>
> On 2016-10-10 14:36, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> One more update after some conversations during LinuxCon Europe.
>>
>> The main point was to make it possible for device_link_add() to figure out
>> the
>> initial state of the link instead of expecting the caller to provide it
>> which
>> might not be reliable enough in general.
>>
>> In this version device_link_add() takes three arguments, the supplier and
>> consumer pointers and flags and it sets the correct initial state of the
>> link
>> automatically (unless invoked with the "stateless" flag, of course).  The
>> cost
>> is one additional field in struct device (I moved all of the links-related
>> fields in struct device to a separate sub-structure while at it) to track
>> the "driver presence status" of the device (to be used by
>> device_link_add()).
>>
>> In addition to that, the links list walks in the core.c and dd.c code are
>> under the device links mutex now, so the iternal link spinlock is not
>> needed
>> any more and I have renamed symbols to distinguish between flags, link
>> states
>> and device "driver presence statuses".
>>
>> More information is there in the changelogs.
>
>
> Thanks for the update. This version is indeed easier to use and still works
> fine
> with my Exynos IOMMU runtime pm rework. You can keep my:
>
> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I will send updated version of my patchset soon.

Thanks for the testing, much appreciated!

The series is in a new branch called "device-links-test" in my tree now:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git
device-links-test

Thanks,
Rafael