Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] PM: Add support for device power domains

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 16:40:31 EST


On Tuesday, February 15, 2011, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > > I don't have a clear picture of how people are going to want to use
> > > these dev_power_domain structures. Should there be a
> > >
> > > void *priv;
> > >
> > > member as well?
> >
> > Well, I'm not sure. What would be the purpose of it?
>
> It's easy to imagine an SoC with multiple power domains and hence
> multiple structures. The platform code would need some way to tell
> those structures apart. But we should get some advice from the people
> who will actually have to use these things...

Well, anyway I think it should be easy to add a priv pointer at any time later
if there's a use case?

Rafael
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