Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:43:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig?= <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
       David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A minimally power-aware driver treats all messages as SUSPEND?
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> 
> This was introduced in commit 82bb67f2 by David Brownell.  At this time
> PM_EVENT_HIBERNATE didn't exist.  This was added in 3a2d5b70 by Rafael
> J. Wysocki without updating the above sentence.  I think a minimally
> power-aware driver should treat all messages as HIBERNATE, shouldn't it?

No.

A minimally power-aware driver should aim to work with STR.

HIBERNATE should be a secondary goal (if even that).

			Linus
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