On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:27:14PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Monday 12 May 2014 21:14:38 Mark Brown wrote:

> > This is something ASoC has been resolving since forever with the machine
> > drivers, Russell King recently created a generic version of the code
> > that does the dependency deferral glue (see linux/component.h).  It's
> > not a model of elegance but it ends up getting the job done.

> That solves the probe time dependencies, but unfortunately not the runtime PM 
> dependencies.

It also solves the system suspend dependencies.  Why don't the runtime
PM dependencies just work with reference counting?