Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2 1/2] realtek/8139too: Remove Legacy Power Management

[Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhav.varodek@gmail.com>]

> >
> > Uncapitalize "legacy power management" in subject.  I'd say "convert",
> > not "remove", to make it clear that the driver will still do power
> > management afterwards.
Sure!
> >
> > I think your to: and cc: list came from the get_maintainer.pl script,
yeah.
> > but you can trim it a bit by omitting people who have just made
> > occasional random fixups.  These drivers are really unmaintained, so
> > Dave M, netdev, Rafael, linux-pm, linux-pci, and maybe LKML are
> > probably enough.
I will keep this in mind next time.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:13:13PM +0530, Vaibhav Gupta wrote:
> > > Upgrade power management from legacy to generic using dev_pm_ops.
> >
> > Instead of the paragraphs below, which cover the stuff that's fairly
> > obvious, I think it would be more useful to include hints about where
> > the things you removed will be done now.  That helps reviewers verify
> > that this doesn't break anything.  E.g.,
> >
> >   In the legacy PM model, drivers save and restore PCI state and set
> >   the device power state directly.  In the generic model, this is all
> >   done by the PCI core in .suspend_noirq() (pci_pm_suspend_noirq())
> >   and .resume_noirq() (pci_pm_resume_noirq()).
> >
> > This sort of thing could go in each commit log.  The cover letter
> > doesn't normally go in the commit log, so you have to assume it will
> > be lost.
 Okay. I will send v3 patch-series with changes. Thanks for
acknowledging :)

--Vaibhav Gupta
> >
> > > Remove "struct pci_driver.suspend" and "struct pci_driver.resume"
> > > bindings, and add "struct pci_driver.driver.pm" .
> > >