Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755012Ab1CVOFj (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:05:39 -0400 Received: from linux-sh.org ([111.68.239.195]:41560 "EHLO linux-sh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753804Ab1CVOFh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:05:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:04:20 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: "R. J. Wysocki" , LKML , Greg KH , Kay Sievers , Linux PM mailing list , Russell King , Magnus Damm , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] sh: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev Message-ID: <20110322140420.GA24004@linux-sh.org> References: <201103100131.58206.rjw@sisk.pl> <201103131403.49561.rwys@fuw.edu.pl> <20110317082016.GB13315@linux-sh.org> <201103190147.28001.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201103190147.28001.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2326 Lines: 47 On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 01:47:27AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, March 17, 2011, Paul Mundt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:03:49PM +0100, R. J. Wysocki wrote: > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki > > > > > > Convert the SuperH clocks framework and shared interrupt handling > > > code to using struct syscore_ops instead of a sysdev classes and > > > sysdevs for power managment. > > > > > > This reduces the code size significantly and simplifies it. The > > > optimizations causing things not to be restored after creating a > > > hibernation image are removed, but they might lead to undesirable > > > effects during resume from hibernation (e.g. the clocks would be left > > > as the boot kernel set them, which might be not the same way as the > > > hibernated kernel had seen them before the hibernation). > > > > > > This also is necessary for removing sysdevs from the kernel entirely > > > in the future. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki > > > > This misses the use of the sysdev class by the userimask code, though I'm > > open to suggestions for alternatives. > > For now, I'd simply move the sysdev class definition to userimask.c, like > in the patch below. The current goal is to eliminate the suspend/resume and > shutdown operations from sysdevs (and sysdev drivers), the next step will > be to replace the remaining sysdevs with alternative mechanisms. > It's not quite that straightforward, you've also killed off the name attribute for each of the intc sysdevs, so we no longer have a visible way to map a given intc controller number to the controller name in a user visible way. I'm not opposed to the syscore thing for suspend/resume ops, but I'm not willing to trash the userimask and name mapping interface in the process with no alternatives. userimask was the first global configuration item I added, but there are other per-controller and global configuration knobs that I plan to export through the interface, so there really needs to be a compelling reason for moving off of sysdevs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/