[PATCH RESEND 1/2] i2c: prepare runtime PM support for I2C client devices

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Sep 12 18:01:38 EDT 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:07:48PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:

> IMO, this decision belongs to the PM domain, not to the core.  We have
> an established legacy with the current core default (auto) and changing
> that means lots of breakage.

Yup.

> The "forbid by default" can just as easily be handled in the PM domain
> for the group of devices that need it, so why not do it there?

Or at the device level - I'd guess most I2C devices won't end up in a
domain outside of ACPI.  Mika's latest version of the patches address
this issue, the default is left alone.
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