[linux-pm] [PATCH 1/2] PM / Runtime: Add sysfs switch for disabling device run-time PM (rev. 2)

Alan Stern stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Sat Jan 23 07:20:14 PST 2010


On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Hmm, OK.
> 
> Of course, if the driver decides to leave disable_depth > 0, the user still
> won't be able to do anything about that, but if I understand correctly, you
> want drivers to have the option to use pm_runtime_forbid() initially, right
> after pm_runtime_enable(), so that the user space can turn the runtime PM
> on if desired via sysfs.
> 
> That makes sense.  I have a usage case for that myself. :-)
> 
> Updated patch is appended.

It looks good.

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>

Alan Stern



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