Re: [Update][PATCH 7/8] PM / Domains: System-wide transitions support

Alan Stern
2011-06-23T18:22:18Z

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > It should say "system suspend" rather than "system sleep".
>
> It says "system sleep" to distinguish between the state of the system
> ("system sleep") and the operation leading to that state ("system suspend").
> That terminology is used all over the document, so I don't think it's a good
> idea to change it just for this specific paragraph.
>
> I agree that "suspend" should be used where it talks about starting, stopping
> etc.
>
> > Then to drive the point home, the following sentence chould say
> > something like this:
> >
> > If that is the case and none of the situations listed above takes place
> > (in particular, if the system is waking up from suspend and not from
> > hibernation), it may be more efficient to leave the devices that had
> > been suspended before the system suspend began in the suspended state.
>
> That's fine by me, except that I'd simply say "(in particular, if the system
> is not waking up from hibernation)".

Okay.

Alan Stern