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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Zabolotny <zap@homelink.ru>,
	Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: two patches - request for comments
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:43:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604204322.GA13569@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040602223219.B9322@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:32:19PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:15:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:00:36AM +0400, Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> > > 
> > > In theory, if we would use the standard power interface, it could use the
> > > different levels of power saving, e.g. 0 - controller and LCD on, 1,2 - LCD
> > > off, controller on, 3,4 - both off.
> > 
> > Please use the standard power interface, and use the standard levels of
> > power state.  That's why we _have_ this driver model in the first
> > place...
> 
> It /doesn't/ make any sense to in this case.  We're talking effectively
> about the LCD panel attributes, not a device as such.

<snip>

> Hope this provides some extra reasoning why using the device model
> for these attributes is wrong.

Ok, this makes more sense now, thanks for explaining it.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-04 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28 21:20 two patches - request for comments Andrew Zabolotny
2004-05-28 21:59 ` Todd Poynor
2004-05-29  8:10   ` Andrew Zabolotny
2004-06-01 20:09     ` Todd Poynor
2004-06-01 21:00       ` Andrew Zabolotny
2004-06-02 17:15         ` Greg KH
2004-06-02 21:25           ` Andrew Zabolotny
2004-06-02 21:32           ` Russell King
2004-06-04 20:43             ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-05-28 22:10 ` Greg KH
2004-05-29  8:44   ` Andrew Zabolotny
2004-06-01 21:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-01 21:57       ` Andrew Zabolotny
2004-06-02 17:12         ` Greg KH
2004-05-29 13:46 ` Denis Vlasenko

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