Subject: Re: [linux-pm][PATCH] base: Change power/wakeup output from "" to
	"unsupported" if wakeup feature isn't supported by a device
From: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Reply-To: yi.y.yang@intel.com
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, pavel@ucw.cz,
       linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:55:23 +0800
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:52 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:38:29AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > How about changing it to say "unavailable"?  That doesn't imply 
> > permanence.
> 
> How about not changing a userland-visible interface gratuitously?
"empty" can't tell a user the state of wakeup of a device, so it is
necessary to change it.
> 
>   OG.
> 

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