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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: david-b@pacbell.net, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: Toward runtime power management in Linux
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:53:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050814195317.GE1686@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050804080649.GF22000@atomide.com>

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Hi!

> > >	to power down, couldn't the PM framework take care of
> > > recursively sending 'power down' message to all children, wait for
> > > confirmation, and then power itself down?
> > 
> > Could, arguably should -- but doesn't, just now.  I don't
> > think I'd try to manage all system devices' power through
> > sysfs from usermode yet ... :)
> 
> There are some cases where the whole bus can be powered down, but
> a device on the bus needs to be left on to provide wake-up events.

such device can be "off" as far as driver model knows.			Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-14 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-31  2:36 Toward runtime power management in Linux Alan Stern
2005-08-01  2:10 ` Leo L. Schwab
2005-08-01 11:44   ` Amit Kucheria
2005-08-01 14:16     ` Alan Stern
     [not found]     ` <20050802024415.C3518DB57B@adsl-69-107-32-110.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net>
2005-08-04  8:06       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-04 16:02         ` david-b
2005-08-14 19:53         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-01 14:07   ` Alan Stern
2005-08-01 15:10     ` Jordan Crouse
2005-08-01 15:23       ` Alan Stern
2005-08-04 17:24     ` Igor Stoppa
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.50.0508011712220.2764-100000@monsoon.he.net>
2005-08-02 17:45   ` Geoff Levand
2005-08-25  3:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-25 15:27   ` Alan Stern
2005-08-25 21:42     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-26  2:25       ` Alan Stern
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.50.0508012316380.2764-100000@monsoon.he.net>
2005-08-02 14:35 ` Alan Stern
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2005-08-25 13:59 Brown, Len

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