Re: [PATCH 1/6] Hibernation: Introduce system_entering_hibernation

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Saturday, 4 of October 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > 
> > Hibernation: Introduce system_entering_hibernation
> > 
> > Introduce boolean function system_entering_hibernation() returning
> > 'true' during the last phase of hibernation, in which devices are
> > being put into low power states and the sleep state (for example,
> > ACPI S4) is finally entered.
> > 
> > Some device drivers need such a function to check if the system is
> > in the final phase of hibernation.  In particular, some SATA drivers
> > are going to use it for blacklisting systems in which the disks
> > should not be spun down during the last phase of hibernation (the
> > BIOS will do that anyway).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> applied 1-6 to tj-upstream
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git tj-upstream
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=tj-upstream

Thanks a lot,
Rafael