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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: apm for individual devices
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 02:55:18 +0100
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On =C4=8Ct 09-03-06 12:57:42, Tehn Yit Chin wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >On =C3=9At 07-03-06 10:11:31, Li Qiang-E3422C wrote:
> >
> >>'0' indicates the device is on. Other values (1-3) indicate the devic=
e
> >>is in a low power state.=20
> >>You can see ACPI's spec.
> >
> >
> >Actually, no. This is broken interface, please do not use it. 0 =3D=3D=
 on,
> >2 or 3 =3D=3D off. But do not use it.
>=20
> Are you saying not to the the power/state that is present in the=20
> device's sysfs entry? What interface do you recommend that I use?

Parse error. But I'm trying to say that <device>/power/state should
not be used -- it is ugly/broken. Replacement interface is being
prepared by Patrick, I believe, but is not yet in mainline. Feel free
to help Patrick :-).

								Pavel
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