Re: device states supported by current drivers

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> >Am Mo, 2003-08-11 um 03.28 schrieb Bharata B Rao:
> >>
> >>Are there any device drivers in 2.4/2.6 kernels which actually support 
> >>different low power states as defined by ACPI ? The reason I ask is I 
> >>can't really see any device actually implementing the new driver model 
> >>suspend routine which is used by ACPI.
> >
> >
> >What about the e100 driver? See drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c
> >
> 
> Ok, I can see that now. Thanks.
> 
> Two more dumb questions (sorry for asking them here in devel list)
> 
> 1. When a particular sleep state (S1 - S5) is entered via 
> /proc/acpi/sleep, the devices are put to one of the D states (D0 - D3)
> From the code (device_suspend, e100_suspend, pci_set_power_state), it 
> looks like the sleep states (Sx) are directly translated to device 
> states (Dx) when it comes to device suspend. i,e., when I say enter S2, 
> it will lead to device entering to D2. Is this how it should be ?

I believe suspend() function parameters are expected to tell you *S*
state we are entering. I do not see code that enables drivers to enter
D0 vs. D1 vs. D2 vs D3. I guess it is not there.

								Pavel
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