From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [patch] pm: fix runtime powermanagement's /sys interface Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:16:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20060104221656.GE1860@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060104213405.GC1761@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: Patrick Mochel , Andrew Morton , Linux-pm mailing list , kernel list List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On St 04-01-06 17:06:09, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > As I mentioned in the thread (currently happening, BTW) on the linux-pm > > > list, what you want to do is accept a string that reflects an actual state > > > that the device supports. For PCI devices that support low-power states, > > > this would be "D1", "D2", "D3", etc. For USB devices, which only support > > > an "on" and "suspended" state, the values that this patch parses would > > > actually work. > > > > We want _common_ values, anyway. So, we do not want "D0", "D1", "D2", > > "D3hot" in PCI cases. We probably want "on", "D1", "D2", "suspend", > > and I'm not sure about those "D1" and "D2" parts. Userspace should not > > have to know about details, it will mostly use "on"/"suspend" anyway. > > It would be good to make the details available so that they are there when > needed. For instance, we might export "D0", "on", "D1", "D2", "D3", and > "suspend", treating "on" as a synonym for "D0" and "suspend" as a synonym > for "D3". Why to make it this complex? I do not think there's any confusion possible. "on" always corresponds to "D0", and "suspend" is "D3". Anyone who knows what "D2" means, should know that, too... Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp!