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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: Userspace interface breakage in power/state
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:20:36 +0100
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On Po 16-01-06 00:25:17, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> In older kernels, power/state for PCI devices took a PCI power state as 
> an argument and so "3" was an entirely sensible thing to echo into it. 
> In current kernels, it hits a BUG() in pci_choose_state and things blow 
> up.
> 
> While I realise that the former interface was broken and wrong, would it 
> be possible to move to a new one without breaking existing code? 

I had patch to fix this breakage, but it was rejected. What depends on
that code?
								Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!

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