• Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
    driver core: Document limitation related to DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE · 70fb9a25
    Rafael J. Wysocki authored
    If device_link_add() is called twice in a row to create a stateless
    device link for the same consumer-supplier pair without an attempt
    to delete the link between these calls, and the second caller passes
    DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE to it in flags, calling either device_link_del()
    or device_link_remove() immediately after that will leave the link's
    supplier device with nonzero PM-runtime usage counter, which may
    prevent the supplier from being runtime-suspended going forward
    until the link is deleted by another invocation of device_link_del()
    or device_link_remove() for it.
    
    Even though this is confusing and may lead to subtle issues, trying
    to avoid it in the framework also may cause problems to appear, so
    document it as a known limitation.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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