[PATCH v2] pinctrl: clarify idle vs sleep states

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Sep 28 12:24:42 EDT 2012


On 09/28/2012 01:18 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> 
> This pure documentation fix tries to align the "idle" and
> "sleep" pin states to the idle and suspend states from
> runtime PM.
> 
> Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard at st.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> ---
> ChangeLog v1->v2:
> - I changed my mind slightly after experimentation in practice
>   (empirical stuff is the best). So now I think "idle" is for
>   runtime_suspend(), and "sleep" is for suspend() proper. This
>   works best in practice for us. I'm trying to set some model
>   here that will be easy to understand and usable for typical
>   cases.

Yes, I think this makes sense.

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>



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