Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760277AbYCTUaQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:30:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758346AbYCTUXP (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:23:15 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2621 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757709AbYCTUXN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:23:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:22:16 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: rae l Cc: David Miller , Christoph Hellwig , Dominik Brodowski , Adrian Bunk , Arjan van de Ven , Nick Piggin , Len Brown , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update Message-ID: <20080320202215.GD4397@ucw.cz> References: <91b13c310803200622k6a302851nc97774615f2ef3ee@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <91b13c310803200622k6a302851nc97774615f2ef3ee@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1410 Lines: 32 On Thu 2008-03-20 21:22:29, rae l wrote: > I noticed that many feature removal schedule marked in this file have > expired, so please update information: > 1. if the feature has been removed, please remove it from this file; > 2. if it does not, please update the schedule date; > What: dev->power.power_state > When: July 2007 > Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing > driver-internal runtime power management with: mechanisms to support > system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that distinguish > different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace policy > inputs. This framework was never widely used, and most attempts to > use it were broken. Drivers should instead be exposing domain-specific > interfaces either to kernel or to userspace. > Who: Pavel Machek Feel free to help killing remaining power_state users, then it can disappear. I won't update the date: it is in past to remind people that it should have been killed already. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/