[PATCH] PM / Domains: Change prototype for the ->attach_dev() callback

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:38:30PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net> writes:
>>
>> > On Thursday, October 30, 2014 01:02:49 PM Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> >> Convert the prototype to return and int. This is just an initial step,
>> >> needed to support error handling.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
>>
>> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at linaro.org>
>>
>> >>
>> >> This patch is intended as fix for 3.18 rc[n]. Why?
>> >>
>> >> There are other SOC specific patches around that adds genpd support and which
>> >> implements the ->attach_dev() callback. To prevent having an "atomic" patch
>> >> during the next release cycle, let's change the prototype now instead.
>> >>
>> >> Further patches will add the actual error handling in genpd and these can then
>> >> be reviewed and tested thoroughly.
>> >
>> > So we have no users of ->attach_dev at the moment, right?
>>
>> Not in mainline, but there are a couple getting ready to hit -next, so
>> we wanted to fix this before they arrive so that adding the error
>> handling will be easier.
>
> BTW, while we are at it, can we also pass the domain itself to
> attach_dev() and detach_dev()? If anything it helps with debugging (you
> can print domain name from the callbacks).

You can use dev->pm_domain, which is already set.

Note that this is no longer the case after Ulf's "[PATCH 3/4] PM / Domains:
Improve error handling while adding/removing devices"!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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