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Date:   Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:41:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] PM: sleep: core: Rearrange the handling of driver
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On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:00 PM Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This is an update including some fixes and extra patches based on the
> > > continuation of the discussion [1].
> >
> > I haven't checked the updates in detail yet.  However, it seems that
> > dev_pm_skip_suspend() and dev_pm_skip_resume() should be EXPORTed,
> > since they are intended to be used by subsystems, which may be in
> > modules.
> 
> OK, so what about an extra patch to export them?
> 
> Currently there are no modular users of these functions.

Ah, all right.  So when/if I want to use them, I will submit such a 
patch.

Alan Stern