Re: [PATCH] PM / runtime: Drop children check from __pm_runtime_set_status()

[Johan Hovold]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 01:27:30AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The check for "active" children in __pm_runtime_set_status(), when
> trying to set the parent device status to "suspended", doesn't
> really make sense, because in fact it is not invalid to set the
> status of a device with runtime PM disabled to "suspended" in any
> case.  It is invalid to enable runtime PM for a device with its
> status set to "suspended" while its child_count reference counter
> is nonzero, but the check in __pm_runtime_set_status() doesn't
> really cover that situation.
> 
> For this reason, drop the children check from __pm_runtime_set_status()
> and add a check against child_count reference counters of "suspended"
> devices to pm_runtime_enable().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, but you should also fix
Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt which was updated to reflect the
constraint that is now being reverted.

Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Johan