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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-pm@osdl.org, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:10:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070108131055.GB25933@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701071931.20306.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Sun 2007-01-07 19:31:19, David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 9:54 pm, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:21:41PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > 
> > > Please tell me you mean "devices with a /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup"
> > > attribute.  And that ACPI is finally going to start working with those
> > > attributes ...
> > 
> > It's not necessarily possible to map from an ACPI object with a wakeup 
> > capability to a Linux device, 
> 
> That seems singularly useless then.  If there's no such mapping, there's
> really no point to the /proc/acpi/wakeup table... why not just always
> enable every possible device as a wakeup source, since that information
> is evidently not designed to be usable for anything?

If that's the case, please keep the interface in /proc. One useless
interface is bad... two of them ... :-).

Anyway yes it can be usefull for debugging unexpected machine
resumes. /proc/acpi/wakeup names are still _somehow_ human readable,
so it is useful for debugging.
								Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-06 11:35 [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs Zhang Rui
2007-01-06 22:21 ` David Brownell
2007-01-07  5:54   ` [linux-pm] " Matthew Garrett
2007-01-08  3:31     ` David Brownell
2007-01-08 13:10       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-01-25  4:14       ` Len Brown
2007-01-25  5:50         ` Matthew Garrett
2007-01-25  9:35         ` David Brownell
2007-01-08 11:40     ` Zhang Rui
2007-01-08 13:13       ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  2:28         ` Len Brown
2007-01-25 12:08           ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25 13:15             ` David Brownell
2007-01-25 19:51               ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-26  1:36                 ` Zhang Rui
2007-01-10 20:53       ` David Brownell
2007-01-25  4:17         ` Len Brown
2007-01-25 13:15           ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  3:33     ` [linux-pm] " Len Brown
2007-01-25  3:28   ` Len Brown
2007-01-25  9:54     ` David Brownell
2007-01-25 19:37     ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-07 11:15 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-25  2:03   ` Len Brown
2007-01-25  2:52     ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-01-25  8:17       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-01-25 10:00         ` [linux-pm] " David Brownell
     [not found] ` <1169358521.5691.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-01-25  3:50   ` [PATCH 0/3] " Len Brown

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