[PATCH 00/10] PM / Domains: Add support for removing PM domains

Jon Hunter jonathanh at nvidia.com
Fri Aug 26 06:12:43 PDT 2016


Hi Ulf,

On 16/08/16 10:49, Jon Hunter wrote:
> In order to safely remove PM domains there are a few changes that need to be
> made to ensure that no one is holding an external reference to a PM domain
> after it has been removed. One solution, implemented here, solves this by
> eliminating external references to PM domain.
> 
> This is a follow-up to the initial RFC I sent out [0].
> 
> Changes from initial RFC:
> - Renamed functions made static per Ulf's feedback.
> - Added patch to clean-up provider/xlate APIs per Ulf's feedback
> - Re-worked and simplified the association between PM domains and PM
>   domain providers. Dropped the 'provider_data' variable from the
>   generic_pm_domain structure in favour of using the fwnode_handle.
> - Split patch for removing PM domains into multiple patches per Ulf's
>   feedback.

Let me know if you have any feedback on this. Please note I will be out
next week.

Cheers
Jon

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