Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] PM: i2c-designware-platdrv: Clean up PM handling in probe

[Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>]

On 25 September 2017 at 01:17, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>
> The power management handling in dw_i2c_plat_probe() is somewhat
> messy and it is rather hard to figure out the code intention for
> the case when pm_disabled is set.  In that case, the driver doesn't
> enable runtime PM at all, but in addition to that it calls
> pm_runtime_forbid() as though it wasn't sure if runtime PM might
> be enabled for the device later by someone else.
>
> Although that concern doesn't seem to be actually valid, the
> device is clearly still expected to be PM-capable even in the
> pm_disabled set case, so a better approach would be to enable
> runtime PM for it unconditionally and then prevent it from
> being runtime-suspended by using pm_runtime_forbid().

This is nice cleanup! However I have one suggestion/comment.

Using pm_runtime_forbid() to prevent the device from being runtime
suspended may be a bit fragile, as userspace can then still change to
"allow" it. Wouldn't it be better to bump the runtime PM usage count
(pm_runtime_get_noresume()) instead?

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Kind regards
Uffe