Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:46:35 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-pm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 3/5] [pm] Respect the actual device power states in sysfs interface
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:59:25PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > > Fix the per-device state file to respect the actual state that
> > > is reported by the device, or written to the file.
> >
> > Can we let "state" file die? You actually suggested that at one point.
> >
> > I do not think passing states in u32 is good idea. New interface that passes
> > state as string would probably be better.
> 
> Yup, in the future that will be better. For now, let's work with what we
> got and fix 2.6.16 to be compatible with previous versions..

It's _way_ too late in the 2.6.16 cycle for this series of patches, if
that is what you are proposing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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