Re: [PATCH] net: fec: turn on device when extracting statistics

[David Miller]

From: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:02:00 +0300

> +	int i, ret;
> +
> +	ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&fep->pdev->dev);
> +	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(ret)) {
> +		memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data) * ARRAY_SIZE(fec_stats));
> +		return;
> +	}

This really isn't the way to do this.

When the device is suspended and the clocks are going to be stopped,
you must fetch the statistic values into a software copy and provide
those if the device is suspended when statistics are requested.