Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] i2c: prepare runtime PM support for I2C clientdevices

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Fri Sep 13 2013 - 06:10:55 EST


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:59:50AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:54:34AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:34:21PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>
> > > For hardware that is disabled/powered-off on startup, there will now be
> > > a mismatch between the hardware state an the RPM core state.
>
> > The call to pm_runtime_get_noresume() should make sure that the device is
> > in active state (at least in state where it can access the bus) if I'm
> > understanding this right.
>
> Accessing the bus isn't an issue for I2C outside of ACPI, the power
> management of the device is totally disassociated from the bus and the
> controller is responsible for ensuring it is available during transfers.

Yes, but since we want to support ACPI as well, we must make sure that the
adapter (and the associated controller) is available when client ->probe()
is called.
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