Re: PATCH/RFC: driver model/pmcore wakeup hooks (1/4)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > This lets drivers standardize how they present their ability to issue
> > > wakeups, and how they manage whether that ability should be used.
> > 
> > Why do you assign "enabled" to variable instead of using it directly?
> 
> So there's exactly one copy of that string in use, agreeing with itself.
> Also, so strncmp() can be used.  It won't matter if the sysadmin goes
> 
>    echo -n enabled > wakeup
>    echo enabled > wakeup

Well, you could make that 0,1. That would be more sysfs-style...

> I'd personally rather use "on" and "off", but there seems to be
> a convention in /proc/acpi/wakeup in favor of polysyllabicism.
> 
> 
> > And perhaps you should print "not supported" instead of empty string...
> 
> Except that's two words, not one, which will make shell script
> bugs happen more readily.  I thought about "(none)" which
> has the same issue, and "-".  But I figured that if it were very
> important, a good solution would appear ... ;)

On the second thought, perhaps file simply should not be there if
wakeup is not supported.
								Pavel
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