From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce /sys/power/disk_powerdown_mode Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:01:36 +0100 Message-ID: <200703211501.37164.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <1174468981.3769.8.camel@johannes.berg> <1174482773.4230.19.camel@johannes.berg> <20070321131709.GA5788@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070321131709.GA5788@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-pm , Pavel Machek List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:17, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > = > > > > > Does it really need to be this complex? Maybe we can disply change > > > > > /sys/power/disk format? Is the change required at all? > > > > = > > > > Dunno. Does anything ever read it? Maybe the whole change isn't > > > > necessary since this thing exists only as a hack for ACPI anyway, b= ut if > > > > anybody starts using it with an actual choice being able to see the > > > > choices would imho be useful. > > > = > > > I believe we can just show the list of choices, without changing the > > > name. > > = > > Ok, I can simplify the patch down to that, the only thing about that is > > that it breaks userspace ABI. Dunno how people react to that with > > suspend though :) > = > I do not know... maybe you can just ask akpm first. I believe we can > do that. I agree, but _all_ of the doocumentation will have to be updated in the same patch (or patch series), IMHO. Greetings, Rafael -- = If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King