Hi!

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I had an idea of using an enum type encompassing all of the power states
defined for various platforms and serving both as a registry (to ensure the
uniqueness of the values assigned to the states) and a common ground
between platforms and drivers.

Something like:

enum platform_target_state {
	PLATFORM_STATE_UNKNOWN = -1,
	PLATFORM_STATE_WORKING = 0,
	PLATFORM_STATE_ACPI_S1,
	PLATFORM_STATE_ACPI_S2,
	PLATFORM_STATE_ACPI_S3,
	PLATFORM_STATE_MY_BOARD_1_GATE_CLOCKS,
	PLATFORM_STATE_MY_BOARD_1_GATE_POWER,
	PLATFORM_STATE_ANOTHER_BOARD_DO_CRAZY_STUFF,
	...
};

and define ->target_state to return a value of this type.

Then, if a driver sees one of these and recognizes that value, it should
know exactly what to do.

Remind me why this is good idea?

Because there are drivers that need to do specific things during
suspend on a specific board when it goes into a specific state as a
whole.

We have seen driver that cares about voltage to his device being
lost. That's reasonable.

Inquiring what the platform target state is... is not.

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If board wants to know if certain regulator stays online during
suspend, it should invent an API for _that_.

Ideally, yes.  However, that may be problematic for multiplatform kernels,
because they would need to have all of those APIs built in and the driver
code to figure out which API to use would be rather nasty.

Lets do it the right way. Big enum is wrong.

We already have

struct regulator_state {
       int uV; /* suspend voltage */
       unsigned int mode; /* suspend regulator operating mode */
       int enabled; /* is regulator enabled in this suspend state */
       int disabled; /* is the regulator disabled in this suspend state */
};

 * struct regulation_constraints - regulator operating constraints.
  * @state_disk: State for regulator when system is suspended in disk
  * mode.
  * @state_mem: State for regulator when system is suspended in mem
  * mode.
  * @state_standby: State for regulator when system is suspended in
  * standby
  *                 mode.
   
. So it seems that maybe we should tell the drivers if we are entering
"state_mem" or "state_standby" (something I may have opposed, sorry),
then the driver can get neccessary information from regulator
framework.

I don't think it should cause problems with multiplatform kernels.

Best regards,
									Pavel

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