Re: [PATCH 1/1] regmap: debugfs: runtime resume a device when reading registers

From: Alexander Stein
Date: Wed Jan 10 2024 - 07:46:54 EST


Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2024, 13:23:17 CET schrieb Mark Brown:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:53:58AM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > If the registers shall be read from device, runtime resume it in order
> > to enable a possiblly attached power domain before accessing the device.
>
> The idea is that the debugfs interface isn't supposed to be disruptive
> to the thing being debugged. It would be better to detect if there will
> be problems and report the status as busy.

In my case the device is actually unused, runtime suspended, thus disabled
power domain. That's totally different to busy. In this case dumping the
registers is non-disruptive, unless you account enabling/disabling the power
domain as well. Any attached clock is already enabled/disabled, but power
domains are not.

Best regards,
Alexander
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