[PATCH v3 4/9] drivercore / platform: Keep PM domain powered during ->probe()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, October 31, 2014 10:23:00 AM Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 31 October 2014 01:07, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:47:27PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >> Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > To sucessfully probe some devices their corresponding PM domains may
> >> > need to be powered.
> >>
> >> Isn't that what pm_runtime_get*() is supposed to be doing?  Why isn't
> >> that working?
> >
> > Also, I do not understand why we placing device into a power domain only
> > when we probe it. Why if I unbind device from its driver (or do not have
> > a driver for it) it disappears from its power domain? To me power domain
> > and having driver bound to a device are 2 orthogonal concepts.
> 
> That's a different discussion, I don't think we want to go there
> within this context.

Why don't we, exactly?

Rafael