[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] PM dependencies

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, May 12, 2014 09:31:53 PM Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:27:14PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Monday 12 May 2014 21:14:38 Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This is something ASoC has been resolving since forever with the machine
> > > drivers, Russell King recently created a generic version of the code
> > > that does the dependency deferral glue (see linux/component.h).  It's
> > > not a model of elegance but it ends up getting the job done.
> 
> > That solves the probe time dependencies, but unfortunately not the runtime PM 
> > dependencies.
> 
> It also solves the system suspend dependencies.

Well, I'm not sure about that.  How does it do that, exactly?

Rafael