Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752948AbWLWJhP (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:37:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753054AbWLWJhP (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:37:15 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1159 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752948AbWLWJhO (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:37:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:44:01 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david-b@pacbell.net, gregkh@suse.de, seife@suse.de Subject: Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace Message-ID: <20061222204401.GB3960@ucw.cz> References: <20061219185223.GA13256@srcf.ucam.org> <1166556889.3365.1269.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20061219194410.GA14121@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061219194410.GA14121@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 18 Hi! > > which userspace is using this btw? > > Ubuntu uses it to disable wireless hardware under certain circumstances. > I believe that Suse's powernowd uses it to power down wired ethernet > hardware when it's not in use. I flamed seife for this. It was always broken for 20%-or-so of hardware. It is _not_ simple to fix. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/