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Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 14:27:07 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
        Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
        Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Prevent suspend to RAM
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:07:28PM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> On one hand, the mv88e6xxx driver has a work queue called in loop
> which will attempt register accesses after MDIO bus suspension, that
> entirely freezes the platform during suspend.
> 
> On the other hand, the DSA core is not ready yet to support suspend to
> RAM operation because so far there is no way to recover reliably the
> switch configuration.
> 
> To avoid the kernel to freeze when suspending with a switch driven by
> the mv88e6xxx driver, we choose to prevent the driver suspension and
> in the same way, the whole platform.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

    Andrew