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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 1/4] PM: Introduce set_target method in pm_ops
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:19:58 -0700
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To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@nokia.com>

On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Alternatively, I could write that the argument passed to .enter() etc. is
> guaranteed to be the same as the one passed to .set_target(), but I didn't want
> to say that. :-)

Why not?  So long as enter() takes an argument, that seems
to me exactly what it should guarantee.  Although that 
argument should vanish; any platform that differentiates
what it does based on that parameter can just be required
to provide a set_target() method.

- Dave