Re: [PATCH 0/6] [-mm]: ACPI: duplicate ACPI procfs functions in sysfs

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-01-25T08:17:48Z

Hi,

On Thursday, 25 January 2007 03:52, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:03 -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> > > > Patch 03-05:
> > > > add ACPI sleep attributes in sysfs.
> > > > /proc/acpi/sleep is already deprecated by /sys/power/state.
> > >
> > > Does that mean we drop standby (S1) capability on PCs?
> >
> > I think we need to make /sys/power/state handle S1.
> >
> > There are two cases
> >
> > 1. Platform supports S1, but does not support S3.
> >
> > This is more common. You see this a lot on server-class machines.
> >
> > We could make "mem" simply mean S1 here b/c it is effectively
> > the closest thing to S3.
> >
> > 2. Platform supports both S1 and S3.
> >
> > This is pretty rare -- at least on the systems I've got.
> > I'd like the generic interface be able to describe and handle this case.
> >
> > I'm open to suggestions on what to call S1 if it isn't called "mem".
>
> 'standby'? That's what occurs to me from previous M$ usage.

Yes, something like that, I think..

Greetings,
Rafael