RE: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: fixed: add suspend pm routines for pinctrl

[Peter Chen]

>
>>>On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:02:47PM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
>>>> At some systems, the pinctrl setting will be lost or needs to set as
>>>> "sleep" state to save power consumption. So, we need to configure
>>>> pinctrl as "sleep" state when system enters suspend, and as "default"
>>>> state after system resumes. In this way, the pinctrl value can be
>>>> recovered as "default" state after resuming.
>>>
>>>I thought this was supposed to be done automatically by the driver core?
>>>If not it should be, every single driver is likely to end up with that.
>>
>>Good idea, I will send a patch for that.
>>
>
>After checking more, it is not suitable for driver core do it since different driver has
>different usage for "sleep" pinctrl. Below are some examples:
>
>- Some drivers set "idle" for pinctrl when system goes to suspend
>- Some drivers has some conditions for setting "sleep" for pinctrl
>eg: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>- Some drivers may set "sleep" for pinctrl as ->close interface, but not system
>suspend interface
>- Some drivers can be woken up for "sleep" pinctrl, some may not.
>

Hi Mark,

Any more comment for this patch?
Thanks.

Peter