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From: Francesco VIRLINZI <francesco.virlinzi@st.com>
Subject: Re: In Embedded system the dev_pm_info.power_state is
 useful
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:17:42 +0200
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Hi all
> I'm Francesco Virlinzi and I work in STMicroelectronics, I'm a 
> developers of STLinux (www.stlinux.com) an
>   embedded Linux distribution for ST Set Top Box.
>
> I read in the pm mail list that you are going to remove in the kernel the
>  dev_pm_info.power_state field in the dev_pm_info struct replaced by 
> bus-specific field.
>
> My request is: don't do that.
> In embedded system it' s really useful because there are a lot of 
> generic IP on a single bus (the pltaform bus)
>   and the only way to check the power state of each IP is based on  
> 'dev_pm_info.power_state'
>   without this filed we will have our IP (platform_device) with no power 
> state concept...
>
> At least we could put it under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
>
> >>What do you THINK ? 
>   

> Regards
>  Francesco
>