Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:10:52 +0100 | From | Sebastian Reichel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] HSI: nokia-modem: drop support for disabled pm |
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Hi,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:24:34PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Sunday 31 January 2016 02:19:46 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > > Disabled power management means, that the driver can only be > > used together with further out-of-tree kernel patches. There > > is no reason to support this in the mainline kernel and not > > having support for it means, that userspace can automatically > > detect if we are running kernel based power management. > > I'm against this change. It will break support for (patched) Maemo and > proprietary Nokia sscd modem daemon.
Do you have some links for this? So far my assumption was, that sscd requires /sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch, so you either need to patch sscd somehow, or patch the kernel to provide gpio-switch, or provide some kind of userspace wrapper.
> Also you can export GPIOs manually via sysfs and touch that state. Which > means that you can do power management with mainline kernel even if you > set nokia-modem.pm=0.
Yeah... You export GPIOs manually. Did you actually try this? You will end up with exactly the same result as nokia-modem.pm=1, just with a few less symlinks. Also you have to make sure, that you actually exported the right gpios, since the global gpio number is dependent on the gpio-controller registration order.
> So please drop this patch.
Please provide facts, that Maemo can use pm=0 without additional kernel patches and does not work with pm=1.
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