[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/27] add pm_runtime_last_busy_and_autosuspend() helper

[Wolfram Sang]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:22:01AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:27:18PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:32:19PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > > > OK, I guess this is as good as it gets.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > What tree would you like it go through?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Do we really need this new helper ? I mean, the very moment when we
> > > > > decide to implement ->runtime_idle() we will need to get rid of this
> > > > > change. I wonder if it's really valid...
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure I'm following?  This seems to simply implement what drivers
> > > > have been doing already as one function.  Why would it be invalid to reduce
> > > > code duplication?
> > > 
> > > For two reasons:
> > > 
> > > 1) the helper has no inteligence whatsoever. It just calls the same
> > > functions.
> > > 
> > > 2) the duplication will vanish whenever someone implements
> > > ->runtime_idle() and have that call pm_runtime_autosuspend() (like PCI
> > > and USB buses are doing today). This will just be yet another line that
> > > needs to change.
> > > 
> > > Frankly though, no strong feelings, I just think it's a commit that
> > > doesn't bring that any benefits other than looking like one line was
> > > removed.
> > and yes that is what it tries to do nothing more nothing less. If in future
> > there are no users (today we have quite a few), then we can remove the dead
> > macro, no harm. But that is not the situation today.
> 
> as I said, a commit that's bound to be useless. It's not like you're
> saving 10 lines of code, it's only one. Replacing two simple lines with
> a function which takes <joke> almost as many characters to type </joke>.
> 
> IMO, this is pretty useless and I'd rather not see them in the drivers I
> maintain, sorry.

It is not a NACK from me; yet from a high-level perspective I agree with
Felipe.

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