Re: [PATCH] leds: Fix warnings when PM is disabled for BD2802

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Jan 21 2011 - 18:47:25 EST


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:38:37PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:14:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > And it leaves
> > bd2802_i2c_driver.driver.pm pointing at that all-zeroes instance of
> > dev_pm_ops, which is rather dangerous.

> Nothing dagerous here - PM core deals with half-filled pm_ops just fine.

Indeed, all the PM operations are completly optional so there's no
problem there except for the empty dev_pm_ops we leave lying around for
each driver.

> > If CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n, the .driver.pm field shouldn't exist at all.

> Meh, we have _waaay_ too many config options, I'd rather see CONFIG_PM
> and possibly CONFIG_PM_SLEEP go, maybe leaving us with
> CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and maybe not. How many devices out there do not want
> PM?

I made the same point earlier; I guess I'll post an RFC patch over the
weekend.
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