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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PM / domains: Kconfig: always enable PM_RUNTIME when genpd enabled
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 15, 2014 01:32:01 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org> wrote:
>> >>> It makes little sense to use generic power domains without runtime PM.
>> >>
>> >> Does it?
>> >> It still powers down the PM domains on system suspend (at least on my
>> >> boards ;-)
>> >
>> > Sure, but your devices are also using runtime PM, so I'm not sure how
>> > does that change my statement above?
>>
>> I do mean with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME turned off.
>>
>> If PM domain support is disabled, s2ram will not power down the PM domains.
>
> But if PM_RUNTIME is enabled along with it, I don't think it will make much
> of a different, will it?

That's true.

> Building the kernel with genpd and without PM_RUNTIME is possible today,
> but is it really useful? To me, it only seems to make people try to
> reinvent the wheel "because PM_RUNTIME may be unset".
>
> I have to say I'm seriously considering to make PM_SLEEP select
> PM_RUNTIME too as that would make quite a few things a *lot* simpler.

I agree that it would simplify things, a reduce testing efforts.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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