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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC] Linux Power Management
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:38:30 +0200
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Hi!

> > > This API is different from the current ->suspend and ->resume because it
> > > applies to situations outside of system suspend (e.g. runtime power
> > > management) and has an emphasis on specific device power states. 
> > 
> > No. It took 2+ years to add at at least system power states. You want
> > to build on that, not scratch it and start over.
> 
> After giving it some serious thought, I've decided that I agree.  I'm
> reworking my plans to reflect this.
> 
> I was wondering, however, what do you have in mind for adding to pm_message_t?
> Also, are you going to use "PMSG_HALT" and/or "PMSG_REBOOT"?

If I added PMSG_REBOOT, I'd have to modify all the drivers to support
it. Incompatible change, bad.

We already have something close enough, PMSG_FREEZE. That means that
drivers will do right thing by default. If someone really needs to
tell between normal freeze and reboot, we can add a flag; but I'm not
100% convinced it is neccessary.

Same for PMSG_HALT.
								Pavel
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